Free Web NovelChapter 147: Chapter 147: Master Body Stabilization
Spiritual Qi was incredibly abundant in the Ancient Times, so naturally, all sorts of Spirit Medicines were innumerable.
While one couldn’t exactly consume hundred-year and Thousand-Year Spirit Medicines at will, it wasn’t far off.
The Ancient Yan Family was considered a rather large Cultivation Clan.
Even their children consumed medicinal meals concocted from dozens of hundred-year Spirit Medicines and prepared with Top Grade Magical Treasures. The effects were wondrously miraculous.
Not only were the conflicting medicinal properties among the various Spirit Medicines completely neutralized, but the concoction was also made exceptionally gentle. Even a child a few years old would suffer no adverse reactions after eating it.
The slight deficiency caused by the Divine Forging Technique would be instantly replenished by this.
But Jiang Xu had no such luxury. He first took three Grain Avoidance Pills, followed by a Qi Blood Pill, just to recover from his body’s weakened state.
’It seems unlocking Divine Sense ahead of schedule will be a long and arduous journey. If my body reached the Body Refining Late Stage, it would probably be much faster, but the difficulty of Body Refining is absurdly high. There’s no way to speed it up.’
Jiang Xu knew that Cultivation required slow, patient effort; there were no shortcuts.
Even if one fell to the Demon Dao, they’d still have to diligently refine Demonic Qi and cultivate by killing, wouldn’t they?
Besides...
[Divine Forging Technique - Skill Level +1]
’I still have my panel, don’t I?’
...
For the next month or so, Jiang Xu was either cultivating the Divine Forging Technique or taking Elixirs to repair the deficiency in his body caused by practicing it.
Finally!
[Divine Forging Technique (Mastery): 0/400]
Jiang Xu felt a BOOM! echo in his mind.
The vast river of stars in his mind abruptly expanded by half its size, and the once-dim galaxy now became dazzlingly brilliant!
In the depths of the stellar river, the once-blurry chains became crystal clear, and their number had shockingly increased by more than half!
Jiang Xu knew.
The increase in chains was not a bad thing. It didn’t mean the restraints on his breakthrough had become heavier.
On the contrary.
This was a tremendously good thing.
The chains hadn’t appeared before, not because they didn’t exist, but because they resided in the deepest depths—a place that the Divine Forging Technique at its previous, lower Skill Level could not reach.
Now that they had manifested, it meant Jiang Xu could shatter them. This, in turn, meant he could gain even more Spiritual Power through the Divine Forging Technique.
As his Spiritual Power grew, so too would his Divine Sense.
Divine Sense has an extremely wide range of applications.
Its most basic function is to probe one’s surroundings, allowing for incredibly detailed observation and forming a small domain.
Within this domain, a Foundation Establishment Cultivator has no blind spots. Their opponent’s every move can be perceived.
The trajectory of an opponent’s Flying Sword, a magical attack, a treacherous sneak attack... as long as Divine Sense detects it in time, the cultivator can react accordingly.
In combat, Divine Sense determines the number of Magical Artifacts, Magic, and Talismans one can control, as well as their maximum attack range.
Not to mention, some can even use their Divine Sense to construct Magic and attack others.
Without a sufficiently powerful Divine Sense, encountering such an attack is a death sentence.
Besides combat, Divine Sense is also crucial in other areas.
For example, in the Hundred Skills of Cultivation, after reaching Tier Two, everything from Talisman Making, Alchemy, Array Formation, Artifact Refining, and Puppetry to Celestial Secret Art requires the involvement of Divine Sense. Without Divine Sense, it’s like losing one’s eyes.
During this time, Jiang Xu’s own Cultivation was at the Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer, but he had already cultivated his Spiritual Power to a level close to the Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer.
And now that his Divine Forging Technique had reached the Mastery Level, the growth of his Spiritual Power would accelerate even further.
’At this rate,’ Jiang Xu mused, ’it won’t be long before my Spiritual Power reaches the level of Qi Cultivation Great Perfection.’
As for awakening his Divine Sense, Jiang Xu had no idea how long that would take.
But he had already made up his mind. No matter how long it took, he would stay here until he had memorized at least a few Runes.
Jiang Xu swore fiercely.
"Even if I, Jiang Xu, run out of Elixirs, get attacked by the Demon Dao, or if it starts raining knives from the sky... I swear I’m going to memorize these Runes!"
...
Jiang Xu was unaware.
During the time he was in seclusion,
an incident had begun to brew in Dinghai State, and word of it was slowly spreading to Canglang State.
According to rumors, a mysterious man was stirring up trouble throughout Dinghai State.
This person was extremely strange.
He paid no mind to male cultivators.
But any Female Cultivator he came across, he would immobilize with Body Stabilization—whether it was a single person or an entire group.
Then, without doing anything further, he would simply drift away.
He would leave behind a group of Female Cultivators, still immobilized by Body Stabilization and unable to move.
This person also came to be known as Master Body Stabilization.
According to unofficial tallies, this man had immobilized at least three thousand Female Cultivators, yet not a single report claimed he had harmed even one of them.
But this did not mean the person was harmless.
Foundation Establishment Female Cultivators were one thing; they could usually break free from the Body Stabilization within minutes.
But Qi Cultivation Stage Female Cultivators were not so lucky.
Once immobilized, they would be unable to move for several hours.
And for those several hours, the woman would be completely motionless, a sitting duck.
Whether they were to be raped, abducted, murdered, or robbed, they would be unable to resist.
This situation even gave rise to a despicable group of Tribulation Cultivators who specifically targeted these immobilized women. They would actively seek out the mysterious man’s location, just to follow in his wake and prey on his victims.
Initially, everyone in Dinghai State assumed the Major Cultivation Sects would send someone to intervene.
Or at the very least, to negotiate with the man and persuade him to stop.
But strangely, every last one of these Major Sects remained silent. Their inaction was a form of tacit approval, as if to say, ’You do you, we won’t get involved.’
This led some of the more astute observers to sense something strange was afoot.
Coupled with the mysterious deaths of a few hotheaded cultivators who went to challenge him, people slowly began to speculate about the true identity of this Master Body Stabilization.
The most widespread—and least believed—theory was that this man was a Nascent Soul Demon Venerable. He had supposedly appeared in Dinghai State to restore the glory of the Demon Dao, exterminate the Righteous Dao, and pave the way for the Demon Dao forces from Canglang State to arrive.
Anyone with a discerning eye could tell this was utter nonsense.
A Nascent Soul Realm Demon Venerable? It’s questionable if Great Qi even has one. And such a lofty figure would appear in Dinghai State just to do something so trivial?
What a ridiculous insult to one’s intelligence!
"Even if it were for the glory of the Demon Dao, he should at least be slaughtering a city or annihilating a sect! If you’re not going to do that, then don’t spread such bullshit!"
Upon hearing this, a certain demon with the surname Su—the very one who had spread these "rumors"—was so furious he flew into a rage born of humiliation!
’Why doesn’t anyone believe the truth these days?!’
’So what if he’d embellished the news a little to get the Demon Dao from Canglang State to send people to invade Dinghai State? The Yan Demon Venerable’s Cultivation really was at the Nascent Soul Realm!’
