Chapter 393: New Star Furnace Technique

"I, Yan, am indeed a Martial Cultivator," Yan Buji nodded.

After all, the aura of a Golden Core becomes evident, and unlike a Magical Cultivation Golden Core, it naturally draws others' attention.

She Junshu wore a puzzled expression, but after a moment she took a yellowed book from her storage ring.

"I recall that this Martial Dao Profound Skill was obtained years ago when I slew a human cultivator and looted it; it's been sitting unused. If you, Daoist friend, need it, feel free to take it."

"Then that's truly much appreciated."

She Junshu watched Yan Buji flipping through the book for a while; his eyes suddenly brightened.

"This Profound Skill …"

"It's quite interesting, right? I've never heard of notions like external universe or stellar furnace; I have no idea how ancient Martial Cultivators conceived them."

Yan Buji looked for a while, then solemnly put away the Profound Skill: "Thank you, Daoist friend."

"Since that's the case, I shall depart first; farewell, Daoist friend."

"Farewell."

Seeing She Junshu leave, Yan Buji sat in the room and began to examine the Profound Skill closely.

The concepts presented in this Martial Dao Profound Skill were truly shocking; it was the first time Yan Buji felt that the ancient Martial Cultivators' imagination was indeed extraordinary.

This Profound Skill is called: New Star Furnace Technique.

The name sounds a bit odd, but after reading it, Yan Buji found the proposed cultivation method feasible.

The essence of the Martial Dao Profound Skill is to strengthen a warrior's Qi, spirit, and vitality, yet an individual's Qi, spirit, and vitality have limits, so one can only break through to increase volume and capacity.

Yan Buji understood it this way.

However, the New Star Furnace Technique proposes: if one constructs the Profound Skill outside the body, cultivating one's Qi, spirit, and vitality externally, continuously enlarging them, and then, while executing, completely burning the cultivated Qi, spirit, and vitality to achieve a terrifying effect of instantly multiplying strength severalfold, enabling one to kill higher‑level foes and attain an invincible stance within the same realm.

Although Yan Buji can already achieve this with his Blood Heaven Ascension Degree, this Martial Dao Profound Skill offers him great inspiration.

Combining several Profound Skills previously obtained from Ru Yin, Yan Buji formed an idea.

"The success of the Dragon Tiger Xuan Technique stems from my comprehension and insight of the Martial Dao, and it can be integrated into the Blood Heaven Ascension Degree system; therefore, the New Star Furnace Technique can serve as a blueprint, allowing me to add desired abilities and fuse them into an entirely new Profound Skill."

Yan Buji is no longer satisfied with cultivating solely by individual Martial Dao Profound Skills; his Blood Heaven Ascension Degree is already potent enough to ignore bottlenecks and directly leap realms to boost combat power. Now that he has reached the Golden Core stage, he is even more terrifying—when fully unleashed, Yan Buji's strength rivals that of late Golden Core cultivators!

Unless he meets a Nascent Soul cultivator or a prodigy of extraordinary talent, Yan Buji can be considered invincible within his realm.

Although Yan Buji constantly restrains his invincible‑in‑the‑same‑realm notion because he cannot guarantee victory over fellow‑realm cultivators who may have practiced the Nine Turns Technique and possess celestial embryo fates, possessing the New Star Furnace Technique might change that.

The Profound Skills obtained from Ru Yin include one called the Heaven Cloud Manual and another called Soul‑Stealing Break; these two have no relation but both stem from the True Essence system. The Heaven Cloud Manual focuses on speed enhancement; once cultivated successfully, one can even float without True Essence, moving as light as a swallow and traversing places—a top‑tier lightness skill. Moreover, this Profound Skill can purify True Essence, suitable for cultivating when various True Essence attributes are mismatched.

Yan Buji does not have this issue, yet he still places great value on this Profound Skill.

The other, Soul‑Stealing Break, is of a much higher tier, likely a demonic Profound Skill that only Golden Core Martial Cultivators can practice; it can seize others' souls for one's own use, augment spiritual awareness, and even enlarge one's own soul strength—essentially, to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, soul strength must be increased.

Yet this is like cannibalism among the same kind; the other's soul may fiercely resist, causing severe damage to the absorber, or the refinement of another's soul may flood the mind with massive information, leading to brain death. Thus, the strength of this Profound Skill lies solely in its ability to seize others' souls—utterly unreasonable.

One should know that a Golden Core cultivator's soul is extremely resilient; either it boldly self‑detonates upon death, or it fiercely resists when subjected to demonic rites. Yet this Profound Skill can absorb the soul the instant the enemy is slain; even if self‑detonation cannot be prevented, this alone is enough to astonish.

However, the birth of a soul is a trait that only appears when a cultivator reaches the Golden Core stage; ordinary people and cultivators below that lack it, or it's exceedingly rare, meaning one can only acquire it by attacking Golden Core cultivators.

For Yan Buji, such a risk is too great.

Nevertheless, Yan Buji had previously sealed the Golden Cores of Long Batian and his three companions; they could presumably be used for cultivation, but the danger deterred him from trying.

Thus, after obtaining the New Star Furnace Technique, an immature and wildly imaginative notion formed in Yan Buji's mind.

Why can the New Star Furnace Technique boost a martial cultivator's strength at the moment of total combustion? Wasn't it said that a cultivator's Qi, spirit, and vitality are limited?

Thus, one must admire the ancient warriors' imagination: they envisioned constructing an external furnace‑like contrivance, then poured their Qi, spirit, and vitality into it for storage, and once they recover, they feed Spiritual Materials into it, letting the furnace smelt and continuously strengthen them.

Yes, it has no upper limit.

Any Spiritual Material that expands Qi, spirit, and vitality can be merged, becoming nourishment for the furnace's Qi, spirit, and vitality,

Thus, at total combustion, the power that can erupt depends on how much stored Qi, spirit, and vitality the furnace holds, akin to …

a single horse pulling a cart, yet a herd of horses follows behind; as long as Yan Buji wishes, he can hitch the whole herd to the cart and surge ahead at will.

The link between one's own and external Qi, spirit, and vitality hinges on the soul, so cultivating the New Star Furnace Technique also requires a sufficiently powerful soul to command that herd of horses.

That is roughly the idea, yet Yan Buji's notion is rather bold.

"Since the Heaven Cloud Manual can purify True Essence, Soul‑Stealing Break can turn others' souls into one's own, and the New Star Furnace Technique refines external Qi, spirit, and vitality …"

Isn't that an external body transformation?!

Although the cultivation world has many external‑body‑to‑spirit methods, for Golden Core cultivators they remain too extravagant.

Even a Foundation Establishment cultivator can casually find a corpse to control with spirit and soul, barely meeting the threshold of a body double, but a true double must have a harmonious mind, with clear master‑servant distinction.

But situations arise where the servant deceives the master, so generally only cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage contemplate the master's seclusion while the double handles affairs externally; generally, the combat power of an external double is not too high to prevent such issues.

Yan Buji is different.

He intends to establish an external‑body method using the Martial Dao Profound Skill, a feat unprecedented in history.

At least in Yan Buji's impression, ancient Martial Cultivators never relied on a single double to defeat two opponents.

The ancient warriors' arrogance is evident from the New Star Furnace Technique, which dramatically boosts one's own strength, regardless of anything else.