#2 - Yuanshi Golden Body Secret
Jun Wuxie's heart thumped wildly. Was a long-sealed prehistoric civilization being unlocked?
The moment the Eternal Life Temple's doors opened, a thick, ancient aura rolled out.
He saw a massive, cyan stone stele, shrouded in mist, somewhat blurry, like a tombstone.
One, two, three...
A full nine cyan stone steles, densely covered with sword-shaped characters, though not very clear.
Even from a distance, he felt a suffocating pressure!
"Someone actually managed to enter the Eternal Life Temple?"
A slightly surprised voice interrupted Jun Wuxie's thoughts.
"Who's there?"
Jun Wuxie's heart tightened. Someone else was inside the temple?
He mustered his courage and walked inside, vaguely seeing a nine-story bronze pagoda, its body covered in cracks.
"Possessing a Chaos Divine Meridian, yet only at the mere Houtian Realm." The mysterious female voice spoke again, "So your bloodline was stolen, and your dantian shattered. No wonder you gained the Eternal Life Key's recognition..."
"Senior?"
Jun Wuxie looked towards the cracked pagoda in front of him. It seemed the voice was coming from inside?
"I have a cultivation method here that can help you forge a dantian unlike any other. Are you willing to try it?"
"Why would senior help me?" Jun Wuxie asked, his heart pounding, steadying his mind. "Senior must have conditions, right?"
There's no such thing as a free lunch in this world.
"Of course. As for the conditions, I'll tell you in the future. You're not qualified to know them now."
After the mysterious woman finished speaking, a golden light surged out from the pagoda and entered Jun Wuxie's brow, flooding his mind with information.
"Temper the body with martial intent, construct a physical dantian, transform all energies into blood essence, solidify the foundation of life, generate boundless qi and blood. Fuse the source of all weapons, gather primordial qi, cultivate the supreme sacred body, refine the invincible golden body..."
Primordial Golden Body Art!
Jun Wuxie examined it carefully. This was a cultivation method specifically for the physical body?
Physical body cultivation, lacking a supporting system, generally stops at the peak of the Houtian Realm, unable to defeat Xiantian Realm cultivators who cultivate true qi, let alone realms above Xiantian.
However, this Primordial Golden Body Art opened up a completely new world for those who cultivate the physical body!
"What are you getting so excited about?"
A weapon graveyard appeared out of thin air, filled with ancient swords, spears, war lances... and bells, cauldrons, pagodas, seals, and other weapons floating above it.
"Enter the weapon graveyard, circulate the Primordial Golden Body Art, and you can attempt to forge your physical body into a dantian. You must consider this carefully. Failure will result in your body splitting apart and death."
"No need to consider!"
Jun Wuxie knew this was his only chance to become stronger!
As a weakling, he could only be at the mercy of others, unable to resist, forced to watch those he cared about suffer without being able to do anything!
He didn't want to continue living like this. He had to risk his life!
He stepped into the weapon graveyard!
Sword intent assaulted him, and Jun Wuxie instantly felt his body being torn apart. The unbearable pain made him cry out.
Spear intent was sharp, piercing through his body with every attack.
Bell intent vibrated, threatening to shatter his soul.
Cauldron and pagoda intents were as heavy as mountains, pressing him to the ground, forging his body like a giant hammer!
He gritted his teeth and persevered, always holding onto the belief that he couldn't die, that he had to become stronger, only by becoming stronger could he protect Yueyao and prevent her from suffering again.
He didn't know how long passed. His consciousness blurred, and he gradually lost almost all sensation, only feeling like he was falling into an abyss, constantly sinking, constantly sinking.
At the same time, he seemed to see a ray of light, shining on him so warmly, as if it could dispel all the shadows in his heart, dispel all the darkness before his eyes...
After a long time.
"He succeeded?" the mysterious woman murmured to herself. "So many powerful ancient bloodlines back then, without exception, all exploded and died, leading me to believe this method was impossible. It seems the problem isn't with the cultivation method, but with the person..."
Jun Wuxie woke up from his daze, hearing these words nearly making him faint.
"How do you feel now?"
Jun Wuxie tried stretching his limbs. His body still ached, but unlike before, every inch of his flesh contained power!
At the same time, he felt something indescribable added to his body, similar to sword intent, spear intent, and so on.
He had the illusion that his physical body was no longer just flesh and blood, but also a weapon!
He tried jumping, and instantly leaped over ten meters!
He checked his cultivation.
Peak of the tenth transformation of the Houtian Realm!
This was the peak realm he had reached half a year ago before his Chaos Divine Meridian was taken!
What shocked him the most was that his current strength was more than twice as strong as it was in that realm half a year ago!
"Now test what level your physical body's strength has reached."
A stone platform flew out from the ancient pagoda and landed in front of Jun Wuxie.
"There's a standard for evaluating physical body strength?"
Jun Wuxie was somewhat surprised. The surface of the stone platform was covered in runes, and there was a crystal stele on it.
He stepped onto the stone platform and, under the mysterious woman's reminder, placed his hand on the crystal stele.
In an instant, a mysterious energy surged into his body, entering every inch of his flesh and bones.
At the same time, the runes on the stone platform lit up with a faint glow, and prehistoric characters gradually appeared on the crystal stele.
"Quasi-Spirit Grade?" The mysterious woman was somewhat surprised. "Not bad, slightly higher than I expected."
"Senior, what does this Quasi-Spirit Grade physical body strength mean?"
"Quasi-Spirit Grade physical body strength is equivalent to the impact resistance of a Quasi-Spirit Grade defensive item and the attack power of a Quasi-Spirit Grade weapon. Of course, this is without using martial skills. If you use martial skills, you can now easily penetrate Quasi-Spirit Grade armor and shatter Quasi-Spirit Grade weapons."
"Senior, are you serious?"
Jun Wuxie was shocked. What was the concept of a Quasi-Spirit Grade weapon?
The Xiao family's patriarch, Xiao Xing, had a Quasi-Spirit Grade weapon that could cut through iron like mud and was extremely tough.
The Xiao family's elders had tried it before. With their third and fourth transformation Xiantian Realm cultivation, even using their full strength, they could only bend the Quasi-Spirit Grade weapon but couldn't cause any substantial damage to it.
In other words, his current physical body could withstand the attacks of cultivators below the fifth transformation of the Xiantian Realm, and they couldn't break his defense!
"Look at your lack of ambition. Your current realm is too low. In the future, as your realm increases, your physical body strength will increase accordingly to Spirit Grade one-star, two-star... nine-star, Saint Grade..."
"Saint Grade?" Jun Wuxie was stunned, asking blankly, "What is Saint Grade?"
"This isn't something you should understand at the moment. Let's stop here for today. Go gather resources and prepare to break through. Remember, you must always treat your physical body as a weapon to comprehend martial intent."
"Well... it's best to break through each realm in the weapon graveyard in the future, which can help you comprehend martial intent."
The corners of Jun Wuxie's mouth twitched. Entering the weapon graveyard was simply a fate worse than death!
"By the way, the Primordial Golden Body Art will cause you to consume ten times or even dozens of times more resources than ordinary people."
"What?"
Jun Wuxie was dumbfounded. With such a terrifying amount of resource consumption, how could he cultivate?
"Senior?"
The mysterious nine-story ancient pagoda fell silent, with no voice responding to him.
Jun Wuxie thought for a moment and walked towards the ancient pagoda, but he was blocked by an invisible barrier and couldn't break through no matter what.
He stared blankly for a moment and left the Eternal Life Temple.
