Free Web NovelChapter 277: Chapter 264: Star-Absorbing Great Magic
It wasn’t unheard of to transfer one’s cultivation to another person.
However, doing so would cause the one transmitting the power to suffer a massive loss in cultivation, and it would be incredibly difficult to recover.
Moreover, aside from the Buddhist Sect’s Dharma Transmission Method, when most Martial Artists tried to transfer their cultivation to someone else, only sixty to seventy percent of their power could be absorbed at most.
This was something most experts would only ever consider doing when they were on the verge of death.
But Shen Lang had casually transferred an incomparably powerful and pure energy to the Ghost King, and his own aura hadn’t weakened in the slightest!
What the Ghost King and the Bone Demon couldn’t comprehend was that Shen Lang had also claimed to have transferred the Innate Divine Techniques of the Evil Spirit captured in the Sorrow Swamp to the Ghost King.
’Can Innate Divine Techniques really be obtained just like that?’
’If they could be acquired so easily and then casually passed on to others, how could they still be called Innate Divine Techniques?’
Such a method was simply inconceivable!
’It was just like the work of a god!’
The Ghost Fire in the eyes of the Ghost King and the four Bone Demons flared violently. The intensity of their emotions was beyond words!
After this display from Shen Lang, even if he were to return their Soul Blood to them right now, they would almost certainly refuse to leave.
"Damn, the boss is an absolute monster. He has to be a monster... Oh no, the boss is a god! He must be a god!" the Ghost King muttered to himself, dumbfounded.
"A god. He’s definitely a god. If anyone says he’s not, I’ll destroy them!" Bone One chimed in from the side.
"What are you standing there stunned for?" Shen Lang said without looking up. "Old Ghost, go find a room and cultivate. Absorb all that energy as quickly as you can and make it your own, then comprehend that Evil Spirit’s Innate Divine Techniques. I’m giving you seven days to break through to the Xuanwu Realm Third Heaven. Otherwise, don’t even think about coming back to see me." frёeweɓηovel.coɱ
’Seven days... Holy crap, only the boss would dare say something like that. Didn’t the Ghost King just reach the Xuanwu Realm not too long ago? This is just...’
The four Bone Demons were shocked beyond belief.
"Oh, great boss, noble boss, this old ghost is on his way..." The Ghost King zipped out of the room.
Bone One, Bone Two, and the others weren’t fools. They all saw the immense benefit the Ghost King had received.
They immediately started rubbing their hands together, chuckling foolishly.
Shen Lang walked over to the wall and stopped, then said nonchalantly, "The four of you, stand at five, ten, fifteen, and twenty meters away from me, respectively."
Once the four Bone Demons were in position, Shen Lang raised his right hand. A huge vortex immediately formed, and a gale erupted in the room. Bone One, at the front, shuddered violently before stabilizing himself.
Although Bone One’s body was now still, he had been given a terrible fright!
The Soul Fire inside his skull had nearly been sucked right out!
’I’m never taking the front position again! That scared me to death...’ Bone One immediately circulated his Ghost Dao Technique, dropped into a horse stance, and desperately resisted the suction from the vortex in Shen Lang’s hand.
Watching this scene made the hearts of the three Bone Demons behind him pound with terror. They nearly turned and bolted for the door.
’The suction still seems too weak...’ Shen Lang silently counted the rotational frequency of the Tai Chi Diagram, sensing the power generated by the massive vortex.
Even the Ghost King, an expert at the Xuanwu Realm, would have been utterly powerless to resist this vortex within ten meters while in his Soul Body state.
The fact that Bone One could resist the vortex at a distance of about five meters suggested that his soul had bonded quite well with his skeleton over this period.
After all, the suction force was more than ten times stronger than when Shen Lang had first subjugated them. The old Bone One would have stood no chance of resisting.
’The suction generated by the Tai Chi Diagram isn’t just about its rotational speed. More importantly, it’s about the power within the Tai Chi Diagram itself!’ Shen Lang’s consciousness continuously entered and exited the Tai Chi Diagram, probing every detail and trying to comprehend it all.
’Just using my Divine Thought to control the Tai Chi Diagram’s rotation generates very limited power... Since it’s related to the interior of the diagram, if I send my consciousness inside to control it directly, I should be able to achieve more precise control and generate even greater power!’
Delighted by the thought, Shen Lang immediately sent a strand of his consciousness into the Tai Chi Diagram.
In that instant, the physical Shen Lang stood outside, controlling the Tai Chi Diagram with one hand, fingers spread wide.
Meanwhile, inside the Tai Chi Diagram, Shen Lang’s consciousness floated in the void, sensing his connection to the diagram...
"This is it!"
Shen Lang’s consciousness within the Tai Chi Diagram opened its eyes, a look of ecstatic joy spreading across its face!
WHOOSH!
A sudden gale howled through the room. Then, the rapidly spinning vortex slowly began to dissipate!
But before Bone One had a chance to rejoice, he saw that even though the vortex had vanished, a strange phenomenon was faintly visible in front of Shen Lang’s right hand—the void itself was twisting bizarrely!
It formed a tiny black hole!
And in that same instant, Bone One felt the suction—which had already scared him witless—suddenly intensify severalfold!
An aura of death enveloped Bone One. He felt as if the ball of Soul Fire inside his skull could be sucked out by that tiny black hole at any moment, turning him to dust in an instant!
"Oh my god!"
Bone One couldn’t control himself any longer. He turned to run!
Unfortunately, it was too late. Just as he turned, he let out a bloodcurdling howl as a cloud of black mist was pulled directly from his skull by Shen Lang!
"Spare me, Boss!" Bone One’s voice, choked with tears and utterly harrowing, emanated from the black mist.
With a slight flick of his right wrist, Shen Lang dissipated the power of the Tai Chi Diagram and caught Bone One’s soul in his hand.
Before Bone One could react, Shen Lang reached out with his left hand. A nearly invisible vortex swept toward Bone One’s skeleton, effortlessly pulling the tall frame toward him out of thin air.
"I get it now. I get it! Hahaha!" Shen Lang roared with laughter.
In that moment, he had completely understood and mastered the profound mysteries of this technique.
The technique’s suction didn’t differ much between soul bodies and physical entities; it just required a slight conversion.
As the Tai Chi Diagram grew stronger, its power would also increase.
And as his connection to the diagram deepened, the power he could draw from within it would grow stronger still.
One day, if this Tai Chi Diagram developed to its absolute limit, it might even be able to devour endless stars and refine everything in heaven and earth!
"The second form of the Nine Revolutions of Life and Death Mysterious Technique... the Great Star-Devouring Technique!"
Shen Lang let out a soft cry, tossed Bone One back into his skeleton, and, while he was at it, transferred a mass of incomparably tyrannical Dark Attribute power from within the Tai Chi Diagram to him.
"You, go find a Gravity Chamber and cultivate as well. What I gave you wasn’t just energy. It also contained some profound insights regarding the Xuanwu Realm. With these, breaking through to the Xuanwu Realm shouldn’t be a problem."
"Th-this... I’m supposed to break through to the Xuanwu Realm just like that? Boss, shouldn’t we prepare something more?" Bone One asked, still shaken and a little dumbfounded.
After all, his cultivation was strictly only at the Seventh or Eighth Heaven of the Spirit Martial Realm. Forget about his level—even for someone at the Spirit Martial Realm Ninth Heaven, breaking through to the Xuanwu Realm was no easy task.
Back when the Ghost King was advancing to the Xuanwu Realm, he had led them and thousands of other ghosts from the Dark Forest, setting up a Grand Array and even locating Earth Vein Yin Acupoints. The preparations alone had taken several months.
Even then, the Ghost King had been riddled with anxiety, terrified of failing at the last moment.
Shen Lang frowned and glared at Bone One. "You really are slow compared to the Old Ghost. No wonder you lot have always been his subordinates. Can’t you feel the Supreme Yin energy I infused into your body? Can’t you properly study the insights and various secrets about the Xuanwu Realm that I transmitted to you? If you still can’t advance after all the help I’ve given you, then don’t bother following me anymore!"
"I was wrong! I was wrong! Please calm down, Boss! I’ll go right now! I will definitely ascend to the Xuanwu Realm!" Bone One scrambled out of the room.
A wave of shocked gasps immediately sounded from outside.
Many people from Tayun Academy had seen Shen Lang’s two Bone Demons back in the Zuoge Ruins, so they naturally knew how formidable the Bone Demons were.
Those were the kind of beings that could fly out and paralyze a Martial Artist at the Qi Martial Realm Sixth Heaven with a single stomp.
"Alright, you three, come over here. Help me test this new technique. I need to master it until I can use it fluidly. Afterward, you can go out and cultivate like Bone One."
For the next seven days, Shen Lang simultaneously practiced Body Forging with the Golden Needle Acupoint Forging Body Technique under the pressure of gravity and pondered the Nine Revolutions of Life and Death Mysterious Technique.
He had completely set aside the practice of absorbing Spiritual Qi, which was a fundamental part of cultivation for any normal Martial Artist.
The progress an ordinary Martial Artist would make practicing with Spirit Stones or Elixir Pills for half a year couldn’t compare to the speed at which he could advance by simply taking a Demon Beast corpse or two from his Sumeru Ring and devouring them directly.
The countless Demon Beast corpses from Celestial Pillar Peak were still stored safely within his Sumeru Ring.
During this time, the so-called geniuses of the Shen Family—Shen Fengxiao, Shen Fengkuang, Shen Jianfeng, Shen Wubing, Shen Luofeng, and Shen Jian—took turns bringing him his meals and receiving half a day’s worth of his guidance.
On the evening of the seventh day, the Ghost King and the Bone Demons, their cultivation greatly advanced, came in to show off their achievements. Only then did Shen Lang finally stop his cultivation.
After eating and sleeping in the Gravity Chamber for seven days, all while using the Golden Needle Acupoint Forging Body Technique with eighteen golden needles inserted into his body, Shen Lang had finally reached his limit.
The Gravity Chamber oppressed every muscle, blood vessel, and even cell in the body.
The Golden Needle Acupoint Forging Body Technique used golden needles to block acupoints, obstructing and disrupting the circulation of both blood and Spiritual Power.
With this two-pronged assault, an ordinary Martial Artist would have been completely unable to endure it. Only someone like Shen Lang, with his extraordinary willpower and awakened Chaos Divine Body, could withstand it.
The Gravity Chamber was one thing. It was, after all, only a Tenfold Gravity Chamber. Back when Shen Lang’s physical body and cultivation were both extremely weak, he had still managed to last for three days.
The Golden Needle Acupoint Forging Body Technique, however, was something else entirely. Once the golden needles were inserted into those acupoints—so long as there were two or more—the flow of blood and Spiritual Power within the body’s meridians would descend into chaos.
Not only would one have to endure indescribable pain, but they would also have to desperately control a multiplied surge of Spiritual Power to force its way through. The slightest mistake could lead to becoming a Fallen Demon.
After maintaining this state for every moment of every day, even the current Shen Lang was weakened to his absolute limit.
Seeing Shen Lang’s current state, the Ghost King and Bone Demons, who had just rushed in eager to report their success, immediately snapped their mouths shut.
’Compared to the improvements in our cultivation, what the boss puts himself through is just inhuman! Our cultivation was almost painless, but he... it’s like he’s trying to become a Fallen Demon...’
’Thinking back, cultivating on the edge of the Ice Wave Cold Jade inside the Heaven-Sealing Cauldron was actually a blissful experience by comparison.’
Shen Lang looked up and sensed the cultivation of the Ghost King and the four Bone Demons, then smiled in satisfaction.
The Ghost King had now reached the Xuanwu Realm Third Heaven, and all four Bone Demons had reached the Xuanwu Realm as well. It seemed they hadn’t been slacking off.
Just then, a KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK suddenly sounded at the door of the Gravity Chamber.
A pleasant female voice spoke from outside the door. "Hey, you. My dad needs to see you and sent me to come get you."
’It’s her?’ Shen Lang was slightly taken aback.
