Chapter 205: Indestructible Demon Body

Sitting cross-legged on a soft rush mat, Fang Can calmed his mind and began cultivation.

Above his head, the skylight stood wide open.

The noon sun directly above shone straight onto his body, as if draping him in divine light.

Ever since his cultivation reached the tenth layer of the Mysterious Gate, he could feel that he was only one step away from the threshold of the next stage.

Just that tiny bit remained; if he were willing to take the step, he could break through with ease.

This feeling was like the thin film separating him from the women; if he wished, he could pierce it in an instant.

But to be honest, Fang Can had absolutely no idea what the effects would be after breaking through.

Because in this world, people call it Martial Dao, but this is merely body refinement that everyone must undergo when shedding their mortal flesh.

In truth, when ascending the Heavenly Path, one completely switches to a different system.

Depending on the description of the mind, the manifestation at the moment of breakthrough differs for every system.

When a Confucian scholar breaks through, the power of the mind transforms into literary qi, hidden in the chest.

When a martial artist breaks through, the power of the mind turns into true essence, true qi, or internal energy, circulating within the eight extraordinary meridians.

When a cultivator breaks through, it becomes spiritual power or spiritual qi, stored within the dantian.

There are even cases where, at the moment of breakthrough, there is not a shred of spiritual power within the body, and the physical body instead regresses into a powerless ordinary person or a pure ghost.

It differs completely based on the technique, the system, and each person's understanding of the cultivation system.

And the "Great Sun Indestructible Demon Body" that Fang Can cultivates was imagined by himself using his super-strong power of belief; there are absolutely no precedents for reference.

So Fang Can himself does not know what he should do next.

But it does not matter, because Fang Can knows clearly in his heart that as long as he firmly believes he can break through today, that is enough.

In the Martial Dao of Belief, the power of belief is infinite.

And reaching the tenth layer of the Mysterious Gate is like holding a Foundation Establishment certificate; no difficulty can block him.

With Fang Can's current realm and talent, he could break through even by singing.

"But I might as well reference the experiences of predecessors," Fang Can pondered, and began to imitate the steps Old Yang took during his breakthrough, copying the cat to draw the tiger.

The first step is to reshape the physical body.

What Old Yang said back then was to imagine energy circulating through every meridian in the body, forming an endless cycle of the Great Circulation.

In the Martial Dao (a notion Old Yang came up with on his own, not a universally accepted theory), the term is returning from the acquired to the innate, allowing true qi to generate spontaneously.

Immediately after, use the mind's image to simulate the existence of every meridian, allowing the void mind to truly form the image of the eight extraordinary meridians within the body.

After that, practice making the false real, and meridians visible to the naked eye will truly appear within the body.

As for why the meridians appear and why they do not cause a rejection reaction with the human body, just don't worry about it.

Just ask yourself: did you succeed in practicing it?

After all, every Wu Gong in the Wu Lin was concocted by a group of illiterates who could not recognize a single character.

The entire cultivation system is a huge black box; you just need to focus on the breakthrough.

There is no need to be so particular about the specific details; as long as the power of the mind is delivered, the Wish Machine will help fill in the gaps.

Fortunately, this human-shaped Wish Machine is not some malicious mode like the reward for settling a Holy Grail War or a Monkey's Paw.

Otherwise, following this head-down cultivation mode, it would be perfectly reasonable for the Wish Machine to produce a Cthulhu-style cultivation.

Following Old Yang's instructions from back then, Fang Can gradually pushed the blood to begin flowing within the blood vessels.

After all, Old Yang spoke of meridians, but Fang Can has no meridians, and he had already abandoned the original Tiger Fierce Grotto-Heaven for cultivation.

So now, the only thing he can push within this body is the blood in the blood vessels.

Feeling the blood surge like a tide, Fang Can's blood vessels were connected within his body; the total length of arteries, veins, and capillaries was about 96,000 kilometers, enough to circle the Earth 2.5 times.

The blood within Fang Can's body circulated endlessly in the vessels, exploding like molten lava.

As the blood rushed, countless tingling sensations arose within the body, followed immediately by him covering all blood vessels with his power of mind like a film, causing his skin to glow slightly.

After continuing for a while, Fang Can could feel something different.

His blood vessels were now emitting a feeling of extreme hunger.

In the blink of an eye, these countless blood vessels seemed to possess life as they began to devour voraciously.

As for the target of the devouring, it was the flesh and blood surrounding the blood vessels.

"Wait... this isn't right; that old geezer never mentioned this feeling," Fang Can murmured in his heart, feeling his own flesh and blood begin to wither bit by bit.

It was the sensation of countless flesh and blood being gnawed and sucked by the blood vessels; the pain within was enough to drive a normal person mad.

"Should I stop?" Fang Can pondered, feeling that things seemed to be deviating from his thoughts; he wasn't told that breakthroughs were this painful.

But thinking it over, he decided against it; he was already halfway through, how could he stop? He couldn't possibly kill himself, could he?

With a mindset of just seeing what would happen, Fang Can watched helplessly as his blood vessels, like a Taotie, swallowed other substances within his body.

Muscles, bones, skin, keratin, brain, marrow fluid...

Except for the blood vessels themselves, everything else seemed about to be devoured completely.

With confusion, Fang Can instinctively opened his bone-white attribute panel, which had little presence, and looked at the description column.

Name: Fang Can

Body: 17

Spirit: 17

Qi: 17

Description Column:

The host's thoughts gathered, using the mind's image as an anchor, blood as the basis, blood vessels as the altar, and flesh and blood as the sacrifice to begin visualization and sublimation.

【Perfect Body】 → 【Indestructible Demon Body】

Total time: 2 hours 57 minutes; consumed 70.651 tons of flesh and blood from the Perfect Body.

After the transformation succeeded, the base body stats increased tenfold.

'70 tons? You'll drain me to death.'

Fang Can looked at the content on the panel, somewhat speechless, but still did not stop, letting his body's blood vessels devour each other.

In just one minute, Fang Can turned into skin and bones, his body completely hollow inside.

But just as the body was about to be drained dry, Talent 2 【Unyielding Resilience】 began to take effect.

Endless energy surged from the void, filling into Fang Can's flesh and blood, starting to heal him.

Soon, a tug-of-war broke out inside Fang Can's body; on one side devouring, on the other supplying.

Ten minutes later, after Fang Can was completely eaten clean, what sat on the meditation cushion at the spot was a humanoid figure composed purely of blood vessels, seated on the ground.

That white silk robe draped over the cluster of blood vessels; the blood vessels flowing with golden blood looked like ten thousand gold threads interwoven.

Thus, this tug-of-war finally reached a stalemate; Fang Can's Unyielding Resilience blood supply speed began to officially match the blood vessels' devouring speed.

Without eyes, he silently sensed the direction of his body; after confirming there were no issues, Fang Can decided to begin constructing the Light of the Heart.

The inheritance ability he was to construct this time was named by himself 【Forbidden Character Method】.

(End of this chapter)