Chapter 442

No, no.

Yan Buji's ten years of cultivation have almost completely stalled.

The difficulty of creating a profound skill on his own is far higher than he imagined, let alone this avatar method.

Even though he had practiced the Nova Furnace Technique, Heavenly Cloud Art, and Soul-Seizing Break once each, and studied them carefully for a long time, he remained stuck on the key problem.

If constructing a True Essence avatar outside the body, using essence-energy-spirit as bones, True Essence as flesh, and spirit as the master, how would one make it operate?

This is like making a puppet, except Yan Buji can only use his own power to make it and cannot rely on external objects; it would be better to just make a real puppet.

What he wants to make is a Martial Avatar.

For this Martial Avatar, Yan Buji does not demand great power or a high ceiling, but at least it should allow him to simulate the state of practicing various profound skills via the Martial Avatar.

Of course, compared to the Martial Avatar he originally imagined that could fight side by side with himself, the requirements have dropped too much, but Yan Buji has no choice.

Creating an avatar is not creating life; the avatar's leadership remains Yan Buji.

So after being stuck on that difficulty for a long time, Yan Buji actively lowered his expectations; his strength no longer needs much increase, and now under the full-open posture of Blood Heaven Ascension Degree, his combat power reaches the peak of Golden Core, which is already quite terrifying power.

Any stronger, and he fears his body cannot withstand it.

It's not that his physical strength is insufficient, nor that his soul cannot bear it.

Yan Buji always feels that if he really were to cultivate some profound skills that obtain great power through a burst period, it would easily lead him into contact with a kind of....

A limit that should not be contacted!

In the dark, Yan Buji occasionally senses that this might be the limit set by the sages for Martial Dao, or the influence left after the sages severed the Martial Dao path.

This prevents martial cultivators from obtaining power beyond a major realm!

"I never would have thought this... haha, this shows that Martial Dao's potential is probably even more terrifying than I thought."

Yan Buji smiled; at least on the magical cultivation side, he has never heard of any secret technique that can push a cultivator's realm forward by a major level, and such a terrifying boost seems only possible via Martial Dao.

However, these years Yan Buji hasn't gained nothing; because of the Martial Avatar idea, he referred to Penglai Pavilion's secret treasury, gradually understanding the layout of humanoid prohibitions, and also roughly grasped Penglai Pavilion's method of death and rebirth.

They, by setting up prohibitions, forcibly fuse part of their own essence-energy-spirit and even soul into the prohibition; as long as there is energy, they can persist forever.

And by further drawing some strong primordial power to supply the prohibition's operation, over time the soul-integrated prohibition will 'come alive', but such resurrection is absolutely incomplete.

So this might also be why they rely on Mutant Force.

To be honest, Yan Buji feels that people are all afraid of death, and wanting to use this method to live another life is understandable.

In this, Yan Buji roughly understands their method of splitting their own soul and fusing it into the prohibition.

So this also solves how Yan Buji splits his own essence-energy-spirit and soul, but how does the True Essence furnace of the Nova Furnace Technique become the power source for the avatar?

"Still need to modify the cultivation path."

Yan Buji sat cross-legged in meditation, began to modify some key pathways of the Nova Furnace Technique.

For example, the essence-energy-spirit invested into the True Essence furnace can be cultivated; this part of the pathway is retained; but the instantaneous power obtained through burst is not needed by Yan Buji, so it is modified to obtain a portion of power, even constructing a two-way channel to support each other.

This part of the modification also took Yan Buji several years to finish.

Immediately after the Nova Furnace Technique modification was finished, he needed to adapt the Heavenly Cloud Art's pathway for purifying True Essence, but Yan Buji found that no matter how he modified it, the Heavenly Cloud Art's essential effect of letting martial cultivators be light-bodied and agile would not disappear, which led him to have to enlarge the avatar's overall size to better control weight.

And the most crucial Soul-Seizing Break, the problem is that this technique is an evil profound skill that strengthens oneself by absorbing others' soul and spirit power; to change it to use one's own, the issue is that one cannot control the flow of the soul, easily causing Yan Buji's own soul to outflow uncontrollably; fortunately, through Penglai Pavilion's secret treasury this problem was solved.

So in the twentieth year of his seclusion, the three techniques were all modified by Yan Buji, and after formally fusing them, they already had a preliminary model.

Don't think Yan Buji's modifications are simple; this is also the final result after repeated failures and attempts. His intermittent seclusion like this has been him constantly pondering the various problems of the Martial Avatar.

He does not require the Martial Avatar to be like a normal person, but at least it should possess some avatar characteristics.

"It should be like this."

Yan Buji opened his eyes, flipped through some ancient texts, and verified his idea.

Two years passed.

After Yan Buji polished some details, he then began to try to fuse the three techniques into one.

This process was quite lengthy; in the blink of an eye another five years passed.

First attempt, failure!

"It turns out the failure was due to the Nova Furnace Technique's pathway overlapping with Soul-Seizing Break's pathway?" Yan Buji gave a bitter laugh, overturned everything before, and started from scratch.

Another three years passed.

After modifying the profound skill, he began trying again.

Second attempt, failure!

Yan Buji was not discouraged; fortunately, the reasons for failure can now be found quickly, and the modifications to the profound skill are precisely his understanding of Martial Dao profound skill.

As long as mistakes keep decreasing, his understanding will keep increasing.

Third, fourth, fifth...

After exactly thirty-two failures, in the forty-eighth year of his secluded cultivation, Yan Buji finally fused the three techniques into one!

Now the Martial Avatar method is finally established!

Yan Buji opened his eyes, laughed, and said: "Let's call it the Selfless Body."

After beginning to cultivate the Selfless Body profound skill, Yan Buji's requirements for it are not high, and it does not need to be incorporated into his Blood Heaven Ascension Degree system; thus, as long as he cultivates it to great accomplishment, naturally he can break through to late Golden Core.

Another twelve years passed; after a full cycle of seclusion, Yan Buji finally accomplished his long-cherished Martial Avatar!

Before him, Yan Buji's avatar is entirely constructed from essence-energy-spirit; its flesh and bones are almost transparent, only showing different colors when True Essence flows.

And the True Essence furnace structure in his dantian also cost Yan Buji great effort; not only can it pour more essence-energy-spirit as nourishment for this avatar!

He infused a portion of his soul into it, causing the avatar to come alive. Yan Buji can, through the soul's connection, send his Martial Dao profound skill over, letting the avatar autonomously begin cultivation.

At first, the avatar's foundation is equivalent to.... when Yan Buji entered the Heaven-Human realm, neither strong nor weak, just right.

"However, there's no need to expect much strength from this avatar; it's entirely made of my essence-energy-spirit as flesh and bone, still quite different from a true avatar, for now it can only serve as a backup auxiliary cultivation method." Yan Buji smiled.

But with the avatar completed, Yan Buji's own Martial Dao realm rose again; the vast True Essence within his body, like rivers flowing into the sea, gathered into his Golden Core, causing the Golden Core to tremble and radiate splendid light, bringing him to late Golden Core!