Essence Extraction Art

Jing Qian stirred the power of the Sumeru Destiny Essence and leaped out of the space he had named the Void Realm.

After some recuperation, both his magic power and physical body had returned to their peak, with obvious improvements besides!

Unfortunately, he had now lost his only Brocade Pouch!

With nothing on him but an iron skewer in one hand, he stood stark naked atop a broken coconut tree, looking like a wretched soul who could barely stay alive.

Yet only he knew that the stretch of sea beneath his feet had already become his home ground!

Jing Qian plunged into the sea. Raising a hand, he pointed, and a strand of thread shot out, capturing a large blue fish and having it drag him toward the seafloor.

Before long, he arrived in a trench.

Jing Qian shot out a second strand of thread and fished out the copper hammer that had sunk into the trench.

The hammer and skewer might not look impressive, but both were masterpieces personally forged by the Short Stout Cultivator. They had been made entirely from Sea Fang Iron of the White Fang tier, with solid materials and proper tempering.

They were genuine ranked weapons, and worth a handsome sum.

Jing Qian was penniless now, so he had no reason to casually discard treasures.

After retrieving the copper hammer, he returned once more to the giant crab's corpse.

The crab shell and flesh covering this giant crab were all useful, high-quality materials.

If he could drag them back to land, they should fetch a good price!

Unfortunately, it was lying dead on the seafloor, and its weight of dozens of tons was beyond the ability of ordinary people to move.

Jing Qian drove the blue fish around the crab's corpse several times, sweeping it from top to bottom with his spiritual sense.

In the end, he discovered a place where White Fang Destiny Essence had gathered in the crab's lower right abdomen.

Of all the flesh and blood in its body, only the special material formed at that gathering point was a ranked material of the White Fang tier.

Naturally, it was also the most valuable part of the giant crab.

Jing Qian aimed at that spot and once again entered the giant crab's body through its mouth.

He burrowed all the way in, piercing through the flesh blocking his path. In the end, he dug out a piece of yellow jade the size of an ostrich egg.

The yellow jade was crystal-clear and warm to the touch, several degrees hotter than Jing Qian's body temperature.

Afterward, he pulled a strip of tender crab meat as thick as an adult's thigh from the crab's abdomen, completing the corpse-looting process.

The Void Realm still had to reserve space for shelter, so its carrying capacity was only about this much.

Still, with this White Fang Crab Jade, he had already obtained eighty percent of the giant crab corpse's value.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Jing Qian surfaced again and found half a coconut tree to use as a foothold.

He tied the blue fish to the wood and pointed it in a direction. The large fish then hauled the wood away at full speed.

With the large raft gone and only a dugout canoe left, Jing Qian immediately lost interest in choosing a fish to pull it.

He had already given up. If things really came down to it, he would just split the wooden barrel apart and shave it into a surfboard. Its speed would definitely shoot through the roof!

The unlucky fish hauled the battered wood, carrying the naked boy, and headed due west without pause.

The ordinary sea fish of this world were all quite strong and vigorous.

The large blue fish had actually reached a speed of nearly thirty kilometers per hour!

The sea breeze brushed through Jing Qian's stiff, bristly spikes of hair. For a moment, he even found it rather comfortable!

The power of Sewing Souls and Weaving Spirits manifested in his hair. With this enhancement, Jing Qian could easily control and adjust his hairstyle.

That giant crab had been the overlord of the surrounding waters, with a territory stretching nearly five hundred li in every direction.

Within this sea region, it had been the only White Fang beast.

After Jing Qian killed it, these waters would be quite safe for a short time.

He traveled across the sea in the dugout canoe for three hours before finally reaching his destination.

In the seawater beneath his feet lay an important treasure he had unearthed from the giant crab's memories. He had come here especially for it.

However, the sun was already slanting westward, and nightfall was about to descend, so Jing Qian did not hurry to enter the sea.

He had the blue fish patrol back and forth, guarding the dugout canoe so that it would not be swept away by the current.

As for him, he circulated his magic power and returned to the Void Realm.

Jing Qian pulled out that thick crab leg and gnawed at it in great mouthfuls.

He also took out the Morning and Evening Destiny Breaking Scripture, carefully flipped through its table of contents, and gained a rough framework of its contents before beginning to study it word by word and sentence by sentence.

This cultivation canon was divided into two sections. The first recorded the fundamental cultivation method, beginning with Nourishing Essence, proceeding through Determining Destiny Body Tempering, and continuing until the Dragon-Elephant stage was fully formed.

The second recorded various cultivation secret arts and Destiny Essence applications that complemented the fundamental method. They could enrich one's methods and increase one's combat strength.

This classic had been accumulated and revised over many years by the Jing Clan. It could be called a detailed, easy-to-understand cultivation reference manual.

Using the memories in his mind as a reference, Jing Qian studied it carefully, steadily building his understanding of cultivation in a slow but reliable manner.

This would surely be a long process of accumulation.

After some exploration, he had found the direction of his next stage of cultivation.

In this world, after a cultivator successfully tempered his body and determined his destiny, refining a Destiny Essence, the first thing he had to do was master an Essence Extraction Art as quickly as possible.

As its name suggested, the Essence Extraction Art relied on the power of one's Destiny Essence to draw primordial energy from the domain and condense Destiny Essence.

After determining one's destiny, it was the core method for strengthening one's magic power, and could greatly improve the efficiency of accumulating Destiny Essence.

It was practically a compulsory lesson for every cultivator.

Jing Qian carefully studied the several Essence Extraction Arts recorded in the Morning and Evening Destiny Breaking Scripture, and his horizons broadened tremendously!

For the first time, he felt the importance of inheritance!

The power and charm of knowledge could be directly sensed through these secret arts!

He could not help feeling heartfelt admiration for the eminent predecessors who had explored such profound methods!

This wondrous world was filled with boundless primordial energy permeating all things.

It was the foundation and source of all transcendent power.

Ultimately, all cultivation methods involved taking primordial energy into oneself, strengthening the self, and seeking the elevation of one's essential nature of life.

Corresponding to different types of Destiny Essence, the Morning and Evening Destiny Breaking Scripture recorded two Essence Extraction Arts in total.

Among them, the "Seal Talisman Art," corresponding to Lifeform Destiny, could be applied to the Sewing Souls and Weaving Spirits Destiny Essence, making it perfectly suited to his cultivation.

The "Prayer Offering Tribute Method," corresponding to God-Ghost Destiny, could likewise be used with Sewing Souls and Weaving Spirits. However, this secret art required the support of destiny fire, and he currently lacked the conditions to practice it.

He was undoubtedly missing an Essence Extraction Art aimed at Sumeru!

Still, he was not in a hurry. He had been cultivating for too short a time, and he had plenty of time to search slowly.

He could first practice the Seal Talisman Art and accumulate some experience.

After all, according to the Morning and Evening Destiny Breaking Scripture, mastering an Essence Extraction Art was not something that could be accomplished overnight.

Jing Qian rested in the Void Realm for two hours, ensuring he got the necessary sleep.

With the remaining time, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to comprehending the Seal Talisman Art, feeling that he had gained a great deal!

Only when the sun rose did he withdraw from that state of enlightenment.

At one point, Jing Qian even wanted to stay in the Void Realm until he had mastered the Essence Extraction Art.

But his many years of martial arts experience told him that haste often made waste!

Being too immersed and obsessive would undoubtedly overdraw his mental strength and condition, and was one manifestation of inner demons taking root.

A balance between tension and relaxation, and avoiding getting carried away—that was the proper path of cultivation.

Otherwise, one string of losses could make him drop a whole rank!

He put away the secret manual and stretched greatly before fleeing out of the Void Realm.

He did not know if it was an illusion, but he faintly felt that the Void Realm seemed to have grown a little larger!

Back on the surface of the sea, the large blue fish was still dutifully carrying out Jing Qian's orders.

Jing Qian casually released it.

After a full day and night and more than a thousand li of travel, the fish's strength had been severely exhausted. The fact that Jing Qian had not worked it to death was already a heaven-sent blessing.

With his left hand, he shot out a strand of thread and changed to a large yellow fish to continue watching the dugout canoe for him.

With his right hand, he shot out another strand of thread and caught a large black fish. It pulled his body as he swam toward the depths of the sea.

The sun hung high overhead, and beneath its radiance, everything under the surface of the sea was clearly visible.

But after Jing Qian descended two hundred meters, the surrounding light grew increasingly dim.

By the time he finally reached the seafloor, he had entered a thousand-meter-deep sea where he could not see his own hand before his face!

Jing Qian firmly covered his body in a layer of White Fang Destiny Essence, blocking the immense pressure of the seafloor.

He felt the unique serenity and pressure of the deep sea, yet his heart was filled with the excitement and curiosity of exploration.

After identifying his position, Jing Qian gave the strand of thread another sharp tug, letting the fish pull him toward the place in the giant crab's memories.

After swimming nearly another li, he finally reached the ultimate destination of this journey.

A huge treasure ship appeared before his eyes!

No, not a whole ship—it was half a ship!

Only the front half of the treasure ship remained intact. The back half had been bitten away by some enormous creature, and the fracture was covered in neat tooth marks.

This half of the treasure ship was a hundred meters long and twenty meters wide. Its design was strange, its entire body perfectly rounded, with no windows or doors, as though it had been formed as one piece.

Moreover, the ship had neither sails nor oars, and no one knew where its power came from.

Jing Qian did not stop. He swam toward the breach in the treasure ship and burrowed into the pitch-black cabin within.

Once inside, the surrounding environment changed again!

The interior of the cabin had been torn apart, with enormous crab-claw marks everywhere.

This was the giant crab's longtime lair, and also the place where it had found its opportunity!

According to its memories, the reason the giant crab had managed to break through the limits of its bloodline and successfully advance to the ninth-grade White Fang tier was entirely because it had chanced upon this wrecked ship.

It had swallowed an unknown treasure medicine inside the cabin, awakening the Crab Jade Destiny Essence and completing its advancement.

The moment Jing Qian sensed the existence of this treasure ship, he had hurried over at once to explore the sunken vessel.

Since it contained a wondrous artifact capable of helping the giant crab advance, there had to be information worth uncovering!