Free Web NovelChapter 462: Chapter 285: Yang Fire Body Refining (2)
After winning the Taiyi Geng Metal, Yang Jing still had some Spirit Stones left, but there was nothing else at the auction worth spending them on.
Once the auction concluded, Yang Jing settled his account with the Plump Daoist. Instead of leaving immediately, he chose to take up temporary residence within the True Spirit Lineage.
After all, he had publicly embarrassed two Nascent Soul True Monarchs. Yang Jing planned to wait in the Celestial Square Marketplace to let things cool down before returning to the Five Elements True Spirit Sect.
The two Nascent Soul True Monarchs had indeed planned to intercept this Golden Core Cultivator who dared to compete with them for the Taiyi Geng Metal and put him in his place.
However, after waiting outside the Celestial Square Marketplace for three days without any sign of Yang Jing emerging, they could only give up in frustration.
"This Yang Jing... when it’s time to contend, he doesn’t yield an inch, daring to confront even us Nascent Soul Cultivators. Yet when there’s no need to, he couldn’t care less about what others say, choosing to lie low in the Marketplace like a coward. He can be both unyielding and flexible, and his talent is so outstanding. He’ll definitely be a handful in the future."
The two exchanged a look and went their separate ways.
Yang Jing stayed in the Marketplace for another ten-odd days, taking the opportunity to refine the Taiyi Geng Metal into his and Yinjiao’s Flying Swords before finally leaving the Marketplace and returning to the Sect.
After that, Yang Jing focused his mind on his Cultivation. He would only travel to the Celestial Square Marketplace auction every few months to bid on the Spiritual Materials needed for refining the Flying Boat.
The Spirit Stones earned by his five disciples were spent like flowing water.
「On this day.」
Yang Jing took out the Profound Celestial Furnace.
After passing the True Blood Barrier, his physical body had, by this point, reached a state where no further progress was possible. Even Refining Golden Core Celestial Demons in the Celestial Demon Park hardly improved his flesh anymore.
Yang Jing was finally ready to begin breaking through the True Body Barrier.
For ordinary Body Refining Skills, the greatest risk at the True Body stage was that the cultivated True Body would be innately deficient, making it insufficient to break through to the Golden Core Realm.
This was a case of having a deficient Innate Root Artifact. No amount of Postnatal Cultivation or ingested Spirit Pills could compensate for it, and one would be trapped in the Foundation Establishment Realm for life.
The True Body Barrier of the True Yang Body, however, was far more perilous. The Gang Qi cultivated through this technique was so powerful that it couldn’t fully merge with the physical body on its own.
To pass the True Body Barrier, a Cultivator had to place themself inside an Artifact Refining Furnace, activate their Yang Fire, and smelt their own body as if it were a Magical Treasure.
To completely pass the True Body Barrier, a Cultivator of the True Yang Body had to guide the Yang Fire to burn all the way into their bone marrow. The slightest misstep would incinerate their physical body, leaving them to die screaming inside the furnace.
With Yang Jing’s attainments in Artifact Refining Technique, plus the oversight of the Profound Celestial Furnace’s Artifact Spirit and the Five Ding Divine Craftsmanship, he naturally had no fear of accidentally burning himself to death.
He stepped into the Profound Celestial Furnace, calm and composed, and instructed its Artifact Spirit to seal the furnace’s Restrictions. His five disciples stood guard on all four sides of the furnace, their expressions grave.
When disciples of the Nine Yang Sect attempted to pass the True Body Barrier, they would always ask their most trusted loved ones to watch over them. The guardian could forcibly suppress the Yang Fire and halt the formation of the True Body if the Cultivator inside the furnace was about to lose control.
This was because a Nine Yang Sect disciple was at their absolute weakest when passing the True Body Barrier. If the guardian harbored any ill intentions, they could manipulate the Restrictions from the outside and lock the person in the furnace. By simply raising a True Fire to incinerate them, no matter how high the Cultivation or how vast the Divine Techniques of the person inside, death was certain.
Although rare, it was not unheard of for someone to be treacherously murdered inside an Artifact Refining Furnace.
If the murderer was skilled enough in Artifact Refining, they could even disguise the death as an accident, making it look like the victim’s Yang Fire went out of control and incinerated them.
After Yang Jing stepped into the furnace, Iron Head and the other four could feel an astonishing heat rising from within. Their master was activating his Yang Fire at full power.
They were certain that their master would pass the True Body Barrier with ease, so they were quite relaxed for the first few days. Yinjiao even found the time to draw a few Golden Light Arrow Talismans.
But after ten days had passed with Yang Jing yet to emerge from the Profound Celestial Furnace, they began to feel uneasy.
"Senior Brother, is it supposed to take this long to pass the True Body Barrier?"
Yellow Foot cupped their chubby cheeks with both hands, staring worriedly at the Profound Celestial Furnace. Ten days had gone by, and aside from the astonishing heat still radiating from it, the furnace showed no other changes.
Iron Head pondered for a moment before replying,
"According to the records of the Nine Yang Sect, the time required to pass the True Body Barrier varies from person to person. It can take as long as twenty days, or as few as three to five."
Although he knew that Yang Jing’s foundation was profound and that no change after ten days was perfectly normal, he couldn’t help but feel a little worried.
After a moment’s hesitation, Iron Head performed a Magic Technique to summon the Artifact Spirit of the Profound Celestial Furnace.
"Is Master safe and sound inside the furnace?"
"The master’s foundation is too profound and his flesh is too tough. The Yang Fire is having difficulty burning through. To this day, it has only reached his skin. To pass through completely, I’m afraid it will take twenty days."
「Twenty days passed in a flash.」
There was still no activity from within the Profound Celestial Furnace.
"The hotter the Yang Fire, the tougher the flesh. As of today, the Yang Fire has only just reached his five viscera. It will likely take some more time."
Hearing the Profound Celestial Child’s explanation, Iron Head could only suppress his anxiety and comfort his three junior martial siblings, especially the youngest, Yellow Foot.
"With Master’s Divine Techniques, bathing in fire is like bathing in water. Being burned for a mere twenty days is nothing to him."
They waited a full forty-nine days before the heat from the Profound Celestial Furnace finally began to subside.
By now, the five disciples were burning with anxiety. If not for the Profound Celestial Child’s constant reassurances that Yang Jing was fine, they would have thrown open the Profound Celestial Furnace to rescue him.
After all, even a Spiritual Gold like Taiyi Geng Metal would be melted into a puddle of Spirit Liquid after being calcined by raging flames for forty-seven days, let alone their master’s body of flesh and blood.
Once the Profound Celestial Furnace stopped radiating heat, the temperature in the Quiet Chamber began to slowly decrease.
Suddenly, the lid of the Profound Celestial Furnace flew open, and a figure leaped out from within.
"Master!"
Iron Head looked up and saw his master emerge from the furnace. However, his master’s aura seemed almost identical to before he went in, which made Iron Head’s heart sink.
’Could it be that Master failed to pass the True Body Barrier?’
But Chi Yu, who had made achievements in cultivating the Blood Spirit Scripture, thought otherwise. Before, his master’s Gang Qi was like a bottomless abyss. Now that he had emerged from the furnace, it was like a boundless, sprawling ocean.
Even though his master had already contained his Gang Qi, Chi Yu still felt like an ant standing next to a giant—a terrifying sensation that the slightest movement from the giant would crush him to dust.
"Congratulations, Master!"
Chi Yu suppressed the fear in his heart and congratulated Yang Jing.
"You all, your worry is clouding your judgment. I already have a Golden Core Cultivation. If I failed even at passing the True Body Barrier, wouldn’t all these years of Cultivation have been for nothing?"
Yang Jing said as he ruffled Chi Yu’s hair.
Feeling the warm aura from his master, the fear in Chi Yu’s heart suddenly vanished like smoke.
"Congratulations, Master, on achieving the Golden Core in both Body Refinement and Qi Refining."
The five disciples congratulated him in unison.
Yang Jing made it sound easy, but his breakthrough of the True Body Barrier had its share of difficulties.
His physical body was so tough that the Yang Fire, transformed from his Celestial True Gang, was almost unsustainable by the time the refining reached his bone marrow.
Fortunately, he had his Inner World as a backup. He had the Wanhua Child summon a Nine Yin Blood Demon, which he then refined to replenish his True Gang. Only then did he barely manage to pass the True Body Barrier.
Even though Yang Jing’s physical body was already incredibly powerful, it ascended to a whole new level after he completely achieved his True Body.
Yang Jing was confident that if he were to face Wu Jingyuan using a Golden Body Talisman again, he could tear him to shreds relying on nothing but the Power of the Flesh.
"However, I had another unexpected gain from passing the True Body Barrier this time."
As he spoke, he opened his eyes, and a dazzling Cyan Gold Light shot out from them.
"Under the True Fire Refining, my Grotto Dark Dharma Eye has broken through to the Third Layer."
