Great Sun Demon God Body Refinement Method

Purgatory Sect.

One of the Ten Great Demon Sects.

Its Spirit Refining techniques—the Six Desires Demon Art, the Heartless Canon, and the Demon Seed Art—each harmed others for personal gain. On top of that, when the world fell into chaos, forces such as the Purgatory Sect had risen first and opposed the Great Qian Dynasty head-on, so they had been branded demonic sects.

By contrast, the Six Immortal Sects also had no shortage of techniques that harmed others for personal gain. However, they devoted themselves to maintaining relations with the Great Qian Dynasty and preserving order in their regions. Thus, they were called immortal sects, attracting countless self-proclaimed righteous cultivators to join them and practice martial arts and cultivation.

"Strong experts truly abound."

Gu Jinlai set down the Purgatory Sect's intelligence. "It commands three hundred million subjects across Chi Province, collects nearly two hundred million in taxes, and has nurtured countless experts. It has dozens of Spirit Refining Elders, while the sect master and the elders of the Council of Elders have all achieved the Yin Spirit realm. It even has Supreme Elders at the Primordial Spirit True Lord realm. In addition, it has hundreds of Core Forming guardians and claims to have three thousand true disciples!"

True disciples!

Only those who had refined true qi and were no older than forty could be called true disciples.

The Purgatory Sect alone dared to claim three thousand true disciples...

Although there was bound to be some exaggeration in that number, the entire sect certainly had more than four thousand Qi Refining and Gang Condensing experts.

In addition, the Purgatory Sect had twenty thousand outer disciples, thirty thousand trained elites, and an army of sixty thousand. Those who relied on the Purgatory Sect for their livelihood numbered as many as a million.

This was an indisputably colossal force.

Compared with the Purgatory Sect, the Gu Clan of Red Wind City, the Demon Refining Hall of Changjun City, and even the City Lord Mansion of Changjun City were not worth mentioning.

Even the Star Province governor, who likewise commanded thirty thousand elites and could mobilize the military forces of the surrounding cities, was a cut below him.

The reason was the low proportion of experts.

"As one of the Ten Great Demon Sects, the Purgatory Sect is powerful, but it is also divided among countless factions. Lin Xiao can represent only the interests of a small portion of them, and even that small portion is not united."

Looking at this data, Gu Jinlai felt pressured, but he was nowhere near panicking.

It had a vast family and great assets.

For a force like the Purgatory Sect, tugging at one strand would move the whole web.

The thirty thousand elites and sixty thousand troops all had to be stationed in various places. They were like a company's total assets and liquid funds—the power that could truly be mobilized at will amounted to at most one-fifth.

Once it showed weakness and its funding chain broke, plenty of forces would rush in and take a bite out of it, leaving it covered in wounds. It might even collapse from within, bleed out, and die.

"I can't forget."

Gu Jinlai called out.

"Ancestor."

Nian Buwang's voice came from outside the door.

"Bring Su Nanxing here."

"Yes."

Nian Buwang answered. Before long, he brought Su Nanxing into the room.

"How did the spoils turn out?"

"The spirit artifacts were badly damaged. The spoils are worth roughly one hundred thousand taels."

Su Nanxing answered.

"Better than nothing."

As he spoke, Gu Jinlai laid the Innate Primordial Unity Method and the Nine Heavens Demon-Slaying Sword before him. "From now on, switch to cultivating this technique and sword art. Once you have mastered them, I will grant you other secret techniques."

"Yes."

Su Nanxing did not ask any questions and accepted the order.

Whatever his master told him to practice, he would practice.

"Nian Buwang."

Gu Jinlai handed him a box containing the Heavenly Origin Creation Method, the Innate Primordial Unity Method, the Heavenly Origin Sword-Controlling Art, the Nine Heavens Demon-Slaying Sword, the Ephemeral Hidden Edge Sword, the Infinite Divine Fist, and the Great Breath Transformation Dragon Art. "Keep a low profile and bring it back to the Gu Clan as quickly as possible!"

"Yes."

"Also, tell the family head that from now on, if the Gu Clan can maintain an annual income of... one million taels of silver, it can afford to support three thousand elites. However, whether to support three thousand elites or support one thousand elites while focusing on rapidly training the family's younger generation in Qi Refining is up to him."

"Yes."

Nian Buwang looked somewhat excited.

Three thousand elites.

Among Star Province's twenty-six cities, Changjun City was a major city with a population of a million, and only its City Lord Mansion could field six thousand elites.

For a city like Lingxiao City or Sunset City, having half that number would already be impressive.

Red Wind City was roughly on par with Lingxiao City and Sunset City.

If the Gu Clan could truly support three thousand elites, it would definitely leap to become the greatest force in Red Wind City and might even rule Red Wind City.

"Go and return quickly."

As Gu Jinlai spoke, he turned to Su Nanxing. "You will go with him."

"Yes."

Su Nanxing accepted the order.

A Core Forming cultivator was considered a first-rate expert in any province.

In a county town like Huayin County, he was even the uncrowned king.

With him there, the texts would be safe.

After the two left, Gu Jinlai shifted his attention to the small consciousness-form figure in his mental world.

Of the ten members of the Gold Seal Squad, six had been blasted to death on the spot. Of the four survivors, one had a Light Red Name and three had Bright Red Names.

He had left the Light Red Name for Su Nanxing to deal with. As for the three Bright Red Names, he had killed every one of them, turning them into three streams of clear light.

"The Great Sun Ninefold Refinement Visualization Method has reached minor mastery of the second refinement, but these past few days, I haven't dared cultivate at all."

Gu Jinlai spoke in a low voice.

Cultivation was the process of refining qi into spirit.

After refining spiritual perception, his vital energy and blood were already depleted. If he continued refining qi into spirit and strengthened his spiritual perception, his vital energy and blood would be depleted even more severely, until he could no longer maintain the state of embracing qi to form a core and fell to the Gang Condensing realm.

After cultivating for another two or three years, he might not even have enough vital essence in his body to refine into true qi, falling back to the Blood Changing realm.

Unless he could find a method to strengthen his body and rapidly replenish his vital energy and blood.

Gu Jinlai glanced at the Scarlet Blood Demon God Body Refinement Method.

"If a proper and balanced method could replenish vital energy and blood, the Heavenly Masters would have excavated it long ago. I have to take an unconventional path. The Scarlet Blood Demon God Body Refinement Method was painstakingly created by the elders of the Heavenly Origin Dao. It claims that once cultivated to the extreme, one can transform into a ten-zhang Demon God and become invincible. Its power and efficiency are beyond doubt."

He was very satisfied with this technique.

What he had to do was make up for its flaws.

"Let me see the limits of my brain."

Gu Jinlai spoke.

The next moment, a stream of clear light washed over the small consciousness-form figure.

His brain instantly entered an overclocked state once more.

Using the Scarlet Blood Demon God Body Refinement Method as its core, countless ideas sprang forth.

The Scarlet Blood Demon God Body Refinement Method cultivated by extracting the blood of Demonic Beasts. Its progress was swift as a thousand miles a day, but it was influenced by the nature of Demonic Beasts, leading one to eat humans and devour spirits.

Over time, one's mind lost control, transforming into a Demonic Beast consumed by the instinct to devour spirits.

The nature of Demonic Beasts!

Devouring spirits!

The root of devouring spirits...

Demonic Spirits!

The Heavenly Master soul secret art had been created specifically to exterminate Demonic Spirits.

The Great Sun Ninefold Refinement Visualization Method had a secret art called the Great Sun Eternal Radiance Soul Secret Art. It drew upon the resplendent power of the great sun, blazing with explosive light, illuminating the boundless world, and incinerating Demonic Spirits!

Countless pieces of information from every angle continuously merged and synthesized in Gu Jinlai's mind.

In the end...

They became a flash of inspiration.

As long as the energy released by the great sun's blazing light was pure and powerful enough, the resplendent power of the great sun could purify the demonic nature in Demonic Beast blood.

Gu Jinlai suddenly understood.

Demonic Spirits feared light.

That was why Demonic Spirits did not move about during the day.

Even when they transformed into Demonic Beasts, they still hid in dark corners and rarely flaunted themselves in broad daylight.

This had been known since ancient times.

Over the past century, Heavenly Masters had considered using a force as supremely yang and unyielding as the great sun to purify the demonic nature in Demonic Beast blood and turn it into a cultivation resource, but every attempt had ended in failure.

Yet Gu Jinlai, in his state of enlightenment, had seen through the truth.

The supremely yang and unyielding power visualized by the Heavenly Masters was not incapable of purifying the demonic nature in Demonic Beast blood. Rather...

Its purity was insufficient!

It was like how a thousand-degree temperature could melt steel but not tungsten!

As long as the visualized great sun was powerful enough, it could directly purify the demonic nature in Demonic Beast blood.

"I understand now!"

The clear light dissipated, interrupting Gu Jinlai's enlightened state.

But...

The opportunity to solve the Heavenly Masters' predicament lay before him. How could he bear to miss it?

Another stream of clear light was poured into the consciousness-form figure.

This time, he used the clear light to perfect and comprehend the Scarlet Blood Demon God Visualization Method.

Ten seconds later, he recovered from his enlightened state once more.

At the same time, a new light sphere drifted out from the consciousness-form figure and began revolving around him.

Unnamed Body Refinement Method.

"Another deep-purple light sphere."

Gu Jinlai smiled faintly.

Knowledge was power!

Sure enough, human potential was infinite.

He paused over the light sphere for a moment. Considering that the core of this entirely new body refinement method still depended on the great sun of the Great Sun Ninefold Refinement Visualization Method...

With a thought, the light sphere's name changed.

Great Sun Demon God Body Refinement Method: Beginner.