"Anyone could cultivate the Heaven Swallowing Art? And after cultivating it, they could devour the origins of any powerful living creature?" Extreme Cold Venerable swallowed, his eyes flickering as he asked uncertainly.
It was clear that he was tempted. If it could achieve even half of the abilities he had mentioned, it would be enough to make him lower himself.
"Anyone can cultivate the Heaven Swallowing Art, and it has no side effects. However, there are restrictions on devouring the origins of living creatures after cultivating it. For instance, for a powerful constitution, you must first become an inferior version of that constitution. Take me, for example: I had to first possess an acquired Calamity Poison Body before I could devour the origin of an innate Calamity Poison Body. Otherwise, it would be impossible to succeed. Secondly, if you do not wish to alter your constitution and instead directly devour the origin of a less powerful creature, its strength must be roughly equal to your original strength. Moreover, no matter how many origins of the same kind you devour, you can never reach the level of that kind, much less surpass it. If you devour an origin inferior to your own, your cultivation will even regress." Ice Venerable laid out both the advantages and drawbacks of the Heaven Swallowing Art. Otherwise, if Extreme Cold Venerable joined Ice River Valley and cultivated it, he would eventually learn the truth anyway. It was better to make it clear now than to become the villain later.
The fervor in Extreme Cold Venerable's eyes faded considerably. Though these abilities were powerful, they were no longer enough to sway his mind, and he had calmed down somewhat.
"A very powerful ability. So you seized this Wind Wolf Wing in order to devour and graft it