Over three years, Xu Yang's cultivation had not advanced at all. He remained at the Muscle and Bone Realm, the third stage of body refinement.
It was not that he had not worked hard, but that there was a problem with his cultivation method.
The Dragon Fish Transformation technique had been created by Xu Yang with the Martial Scripture as its foundation, adapted according to his own body. It had many shortcomings. Previously, he had only developed the three realms of qi and blood, flesh and skin, and muscles and bones, so he could only cultivate up to the Muscle and Bone Realm.
Fortunately, after three years, drawing upon the transformations of his own bloodline and the path by which the greenfish returned to its ancestry and transformed into a dragon, he had finally deduced the fourth stage of body refinement for the Dragon Fish Transformation technique.
The fourth stage of body refinement should be the Mortal Shell Realm!
Rebirth and Transformation—no longer ordinary, one could be called a Demon Cultivator.
The fourth realm of Martial Dao, the Spirit Condensation Realm, required Spirit Condensation Dao Integration to achieve.
Did the fourth stage of body refinement, the Mortal Shell Realm, also require Spirit Condensation Dao Integration?
It did!
Because this stage had been created by Xu Yang based on the Martial Scripture, it naturally could not stray from its central principle.
Martial Dao required spirit condensation, and body refinement required spirit condensation as well. Only then could one draw the Heaven and Earth Origin Spirit into oneself.
The power of the divine soul was equally crucial to body-refining Demon Cultivators.
This was also why, among the Five Great Overlords, the Giant Turtle had been able to stand far ahead of the rest.
It was a born exotic species, possessed intelligence from