Su Hao's confidence in facing a Body Integration Cultivator stemmed from his deep understanding of them.
In his view, Body Integration Cultivators were nothing special.
The only thing they had going for them was their masterful command of Art Methods.
Put before Su Hao, they would still fall one slash at a time.
Most importantly, Su Hao had already found a way to counter Body Integration Cultivators.
Over the course of a year, Su Hao had found, among the collected books of "Art Methods," the kind of technique Feng Jiutai, the Body Integration Cultivator, had used to injure him—Soul-Extinguishing Art Methods.
Soul-Extinguishing Art Methods were also known as "Spirit Power Poison."
When Spirit Power above the Golden Core Realm was used to perform a Soul-Extinguishing Art Method, its nature transformed into a special state that constantly hovered on the brink of destruction. Once a cultivator was struck by a Soul-Extinguishing Art Method, all the Spirit Power throughout their body would be infected by this special state, instantly triggering a chain reaction. Their Spirit Power would collapse one after another beyond recovery, until it was all completely corroded away.
If Spirit Power was compared to a mass of fuel gas, then a Soul-Extinguishing Art Method was an ember. Once that ember flew into the fuel gas, the gas would ignite, and there was no turning back.
Everyone feared such vicious Art Methods, yet everyone had to learn at least one for self-defense.
For example, the Life-Ending Heart-Piercing Drill Su Hao had encountered on the Guangming Sea belonged to this category of Art Method.
The key was that these Art Methods possessed an extremely powerful corrosive effect on a cultivator's Spirit Power. Most Protective Barriers could not block them. In most cases, being hit meant certain death, with absolutely no chance of