Chapter 275 - 251: Cultivating Immortality for Eternal Life
Kunlun Wonderland.
Early morning.
The sun had just risen.
Zhou Yi sat cross-legged, surrounded by a purple aura, as his physical strength grew bit by bit.
After over a thousand years of practicing the Purple Sun Scripture, he had already reached the Great Achievement Realm and forged a body known as an "Innate True Person."
After completing his cultivation and undergoing tests, he found he could withstand magical treasures with his bare body without using the True Dragon Nine Transformations, and that the Innate True Person’s body had great resistance to magic divine abilities.
"It’s similar to a Law Body, yet its growth is more all-encompassing. No wonder many records state that the Cultivation World’s cultivation techniques are simplified versions of ancient great teachings!"
Now that Zhou Yi had cultivated the Tai Xuan Body and the Star Body, with three layers stacked together, he didn’t know how strong he really was.
Also, understanding countless mystic arts of immortals and demons, during a fight he could see through the origins of an enemy’s divine abilities, using targeted techniques to restrain them, increasing his odds of victory by five percent.
With his Golden Core Realm crushing those at the Foundation Establishment, his chances of winning increased by another five percent.
"With this in mind, so long as the demon race doesn’t have a Golden Core, even if I encounter a Son of Destiny, I can ensure security!"
Zhou Yi never counted on winning, always planning for defeat first.
If his methods proved insufficient to withstand the catastrophe of fierce beasts, he would simply abduct millions from the human race and flee to the Four Seas. This would ensure continuous survival, allowing him to cultivate to Divinity Transformation over countless years and seek revenge on the demon race’s descendants at the end of an era.
"As a person of everlasting immortality, I won’t lose this game of chess!"
Zhou Yi slowly ended his cultivation session and proceeded to the newly built laboratory within his cave haven, attempting to concoct the Elixir Zero.
The laboratory equipment came from ruins of various cities and was not the latest models, but the fundamental principles had not changed much.
After over two months of modifications, the laboratory was filled with inscriptions, and all energy conversion had been switched to formation and prohibition workings, making it a Cultivation World version of a laboratory.
According to the records, the initial Elixir Zero laboratory had a machine over ten zhang (about 33 meters) long.
From collecting spiritual energy to condense it into a liquid state, blending it with fierce beast bloodlines, it went through dozens of consecutive processes.
But as technology evolved and processes simplified and merged, only the purification of fierce beast bloodlines remained. Under the devouring effect, it was fused with spiritual energy to become an elixir.
Zhou Yi learned swiftly. First, his Golden Core Realm allowed him to control spiritual energy far beyond what ordinary people could, and second, he had cultivated the Bull Transformation and Devouring Heaven Demonic Technique for hundreds of years and knew them by heart.
"Today, I’ll attempt to produce Elixir Zero; it’s also the foundation for the new techniques!"
"Once a martial artist consumes Elixir Zero, they’re locked into their future path and can no longer change their bloodline. For example, if they consume the blood of a bull demon, they can only trace it further back, but they can’t switch to a wolf demon!"
Zhou Yi took out a fire lion, a fierce beast, from his storage bag. Its primary mutation organ was its three heads. He waved his hand, decapitating the heads and throwing them into the grinder.
Hum!
The lion’s heads instantly turned to powder, and the machine’s program began to automatically identify the heterogeneous bloodline, separating parts that differed from a normal lion’s genetic sequence.
A moment later.
A fist-sized fiery red liquid was moved to the lower part of the machine, where formation and prohibition lights flickered, beginning to mimic the execution of the Devouring Heaven Demonic Technique.
The demonic technique gathered spiritual energy from heaven and earth. Under the machine’s guidance, it melded into the fiery red liquid, diluting the color and turning it into a crystal-clear fiery red elixir that was then automatically bottled into vials as Elixir Zero.
Zhou Yi’s divine sense locked onto each production step. Even though he was already familiar with the process from the texts, he couldn’t help but marvel at it.
"Even with my strength, accurately extracting a heterogeneous bloodline from a fierce beast would take a long time. However, the machine easily identifies the special bloodline by comparing it with normal wild beast genes, achieving efficiency faster than true immortals!"
"The midsection, similar to a dantian, has the machine simulate the operation of the Devouring Heaven Demonic Technique, refining spiritual energy into the heterogeneous bloodline."
"Finally, the synthesis of the elixir parallels the first half of the True Dragon Nine Transformations. After martial artists consume it, the latter half begins automatically, integrating the fierce beast blood into the human genetic sequence..."
Zhou Yi took out a completed elixir and hesitated for a moment without drinking it. The new technique still had many flaws. He’d try it when it could compare to immortal practices someday.
"Let’s start researching Elixir One!"
The production of new technique elixirs was much easier than alchemy and artifact refining. The process for Elixir One wasn’t much different from Elixir Zero, but the core had to be blood extracted from a Foundation Establishment Stage fierce beast.
The bloodlines of Foundation Establishment fierce beasts were purer and closer to the source, and only powerful martial artists could suppress the ferocity of these bloodlines.
Days went by.
In the blink of an eye, it was recruitment season again at Martial Arts University.
Zhou Yi had been a teacher for half a year and had become the poster figure for the Ancient Cultivation class, attracting large numbers of students to his lectures each time.
The lecture hall kept expanding until it took over the entire floor, and not until after over three thousand cushions were placed inside could the students’ needs be met.
Gu Chen led the early morning exercises and after a few months, results started to show, with increased efficiency in seated meditation and qi cultivation.
As the news spread, Zhou Yi’s reputation soared once again.
In the networks, many praised him, and ancient practitioners one by one resumed their morning routines, looking upon Zhou Yi as the leader in the "revival of the immortal path!" Nôv(el)B\\jnn
At that time.
Dingxiang Building.
The special of the day was a full donkey feast, reportedly from a donkey that had died of illness on a farm.
Yesterday Shen Cheng was successfully admitted to Martial Arts University, and today Zhou Yi fulfilled his promise, treating him to vintage wine.
A Wine of Red Rainbow brewed a thousand years ago, the liquid had become as thick as amber. Lifting the seal symbols, an extremely rich fragrance and spiritual energy filled the entire restaurant.
The owner stared dumbfounded, as such spiritually endowed wine was rarely seen these days, let alone such a spiritual object.
Shen Cheng said apprehensively, "Real Person, this is too precious!"
"No matter."
Zhou Yi smiled and said, "I excel at grave robbing and tomb raiding, so I’ve dug up quite a lot of this wine."
Shen Cheng, not one to make a fuss and considering he dared alone brave a demon lair, poured wine for both Zhou Yi and himself and began to recount the events of the past year in Liang City.