Eternal Sacred Body Art

Ye Qianqian's footsteps lightened, and her body rose into the air, plunging through layer upon layer of clouds straight toward the glowing Crystal Ball.

However, the closer her body drew to the Crystal Ball, the slower she felt her movements become.

The short distance of less than fifty thousand meters should have been traversable with ease by a Dou Venerate powerhouse, yet she felt as though she had flown across countless light-years and endured countless sluggish years. No matter how powerful her divine abilities were, they were useless.

The energy radiating from the Crystal Ball was endless. It could actually make time stand still.

It seemed this space had not been created by one of the former sect masters of the Misty Cloud Sect. Rather, this miraculous place had existed from the beginning, which was why Yun Potian had chosen to establish the sect here.

Ye Qianqian grew anxious. The treasure was clearly right before her eyes, yet it was like a flower reflected in a mirror or the moon reflected in water—visible but impossible to grasp. What was she supposed to do?

"Why not try using soul power to take it?"

She released her Emperor Realm Soul, sending it drifting upward. In the end, it formed two enormous soul hands that advanced continuously toward the Crystal Ball.

"Huh? It seems to be working a little."

Ye Qianqian was overjoyed. She continuously expended the power of her enormous soul. Although the process was still somewhat slow, it was not entirely ineffective.

Back and forth, a full five hours passed before she finally touched the Crystal Ball.

"Crack!"

The two enormous soul hands tugged fiercely, ripping the Crystal Ball out of the formation.

The moment the Crystal Ball left the formation, the entire space within the Gate of Life and Death rapidly underwent a tremendous change.

After a buzzing sound, the space, where time had originally flowed extremely slowly, completely returned to normal. Its time flow was now exactly the same as that of the outside world.

"What exactly is this Crystal Ball?" Ye Qianqian was drenched in fragrant sweat. She wiped the sweat from her forehead with her hand.

After expending so much effort, she had finally gotten the thing into her hands, yet she had no idea what it was. She immediately asked the system.

"System, do you know what this thing is?"

"Ding. Esteemed host, this is an Inheritance Crystal. A miraculous cultivation method is hidden inside, but the host must decipher it to open the seal within."

Hearing the system's explanation, Ye Qianqian's brows knitted slightly. How could she possibly decipher this seal?

"System, how many Shock Points are needed to decipher the seal on this crystal?"

System: "100,000,000 Shock Points."

Ye Qianqian's pupils shrank. "That expensive?"

Deciphering this thing actually required one hundred million Shock Points. She might as well directly exchange for a Heaven Tier Cultivation Method through the system.

However, although she thought that way, she was still incredibly curious about the secret inside. Something capable of making time flow so slowly must be an extraordinary cultivation method!

"Fine. Decipher it for me!"

"Ding."

Congratulations, host. Deciphering successful. 100,000,000 Shock Points consumed.

Suddenly, as the system finished deciphering it, the Crystal Ball released a dazzling radiance. The light was brilliant, supreme, noble, and soul-stirring.

Finally, a thread of crimson light shot out from the Crystal Ball and formed a thick book in her hands.

The system sent back the miraculous information recorded inside.

"Eternal Sacred Body Art, Quasi-Divine Tier Body Refining Technique, complete version."

Ye Qianqian was stunned for a moment before leaping for joy. Haha, she had struck it rich this time.

This cultivation method had originally come from beyond the heavens. It was also a miraculous body-refining art, and its value completely surpassed the Heaven Tier Cultivation Methods of the Dou Qi Continent.

Although it was only a quasi-divine-tier cultivation method, and the pages were filled with characters from another world that no one could understand, it was still an existence that Heaven Tier Cultivation Methods could not compare with.

There must be something extraordinary about it.

Ye Qianqian spent more system points to translate the cultivation method into text she could understand.

According to the information recorded in the book, the cultivation method had five physical stages: Endless Vitality, Eternal Immortality, Undying for Ten Thousand Generations, Body Unified with Heaven and Earth, and finally, Eternal Sacred Body.

However, the requirements of this cultivation method were excessively high. Being able to cultivate to the third stage, Undying for Ten Thousand Generations, was already extremely difficult.

The first stage, Endless Vitality, used the unique circulation method of the Sacred Body Art to strip energy from heaven and earth and continuously temper the body. In the end, the energy would transform into vitality, forming a physical state that was difficult for the passage of time to destroy.

As long as one cultivated this first stage, neither the cultivator's appearance nor body would be changed much by the passage of time.

Others would grow old and frail after nearly a hundred years, while someone who cultivated this first stage would have vigorous, inexhaustible vitality within their body, continuously nourishing their flesh. Several hundred years would feel no different from one or two days.

Eternal Immortality and Undying for Ten Thousand Generations required tempering one's body into an indestructibly tough physical form. Even after thousands or tens of thousands of years, the body would not collapse under the erosion of time.

The third stage, Body Unified with Heaven and Earth, required extracting the rules of heaven and earth and fusing them into one's body, connecting with heaven and earth. As long as the rules of heaven and earth did not perish, one's physical body would not be destroyed.

The final stage, Eternal Sacred Body, required extracting the rules of time. In that way, the power of time would no longer affect the cultivator, allowing the cultivator to exist eternally.

"No wonder time flows so slowly inside this Gate of Life and Death. It turns out the Crystal Ball contains a strand of the Power of Rules belonging to a supreme expert from beyond the heavens!"

However, this body-refining cultivation method was exceptionally difficult to cultivate. It required vast quantities of resources for nourishment; otherwise, success would be nearly impossible. No wonder the system had rated it as a quasi-divine-tier method. A true divine-tier cultivation method could be leveled up effortlessly.

She took the Hyperbolic Time Chamber out of her system space. After placing it on the ground, she gently opened the door, and another wondrous world immediately appeared within.

There were vast, boundless grasslands, towering mountains, rivers surging with turbulent waves, snow valleys filled with drifting snow, dense and secluded forests, and an endless sea.

The inside of this chamber was practically another new world.

Ye Qianqian then placed the Ten Thousand Times Gravity Chamber inside the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and could not help sighing in amazement.

This gravity chamber was truly enormous. It could easily accommodate more than ten thousand people cultivating inside.

She pulled three Storage Rings from her bosom. One was used to store her food, another had been left behind when Shi Yutian fell, and the last had originally been taken from Shi Tian.

"Let's first see what treasures are inside Shi Tian's Storage Ring!"

Whoosh!

She tipped the Storage Ring downward, and a pile of rare treasures spilled out.

There were more than a hundred stalks of precious medicinal herbs, several dozen scrolls of Cultivation Methods and Combat Skills, and even a mid-grade Earth Tier combat skill, Lion Nether Palm.

There were also more than a dozen bottles of pills, with fifth- to seventh-grade pills everywhere.

"Huh?" Ye Qianqian lowered her head and picked up a jade bottle from the ground. She was instantly overjoyed. "There are actually three Venerate Origin Pills in Shi Tian's Storage Ring!"

The Venerate Origin Pill was an excellent treasure. It could allow a Dou Venerate powerhouse to advance by one star, and it could even be taken repeatedly. However, the user had to possess powerful physical strength; otherwise, the enormous medicinal power would burst their body apart.

"Counting the three from Shi Yutian, I have six Venerate Origin Pills in total. If I refine all of them, wouldn't I become a Nine-Star Dou Venerate?"

Ye Qianqian giggled nonstop. Once good fortune arrived, no one could stop it.

She had just obtained the Eternal Sacred Body Art, and now she had six Venerate Origin Pills. Wasn't this the same as someone sending her a pillow when she was ready to sleep?

"Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang..."

Ye Qianqian created more than three thousand clones and divided them into three groups. One thousand formed a study group to research the Eternal Sacred Body Art together, one thousand tempered their bodies in the world within the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, and one thousand followed her into the gravity chamber to temper their physical strength.

This Multiple Shadow Clone Technique was practically a cultivation bug. What one person could not complete, three thousand people could accomplish together, after which the results would be fed back to the original body.

After making the arrangements, the three thousand people scattered in all directions.

"I'll first set the gravity to ten and try it."

There were six switches inside the gravity chamber, corresponding to 1–100, 100–1,000, 1,000–10,000, 10,000–100,000... all the way up to ninety million times gravity.

Ye Qianqian reached out and turned the first switch. The pressure inside the gravity chamber immediately took effect, making her body feel incomparably heavy.

"Begin cultivating!"

At her command, all the clones inside the gravity chamber began frantically training their bodies: sit-ups, push-ups, squats on the spot, running in circles, frog jumps...

This continued for an entire month. Without using Dou Qi for support, they simply trained with their physical strength. Finally, they adapted to this force.

Ye Qianqian became a little proud. Her physical strength had now reached five hundred jin, five times that of an ordinary person.

Moreover, the Super Saiyan Bloodline within her body was beginning to display its effects, causing her cultivation speed to advance by leaps and bounds.

Once she became proud, her other clones took after her. They all became arrogant.

"Hey, original body, can you be any weaker? Turn the gravity up a little!"

"That's right, original body. Increase the gravity a little more."

"What effect can cultivating under this little gravity have? Set it to one million and let me play around!"

Her group of clones felt that this gravity was far from sufficient. It would not have much effect on tempering their physical strength.

Ye Qianqian's mouth twitched. She had actually been looked down on by her own clones. In a fit of pique, she simply turned the first switch to the middle position.

Fifty times gravity.

"Ahhh!"

"Ahhh!"

"Ahhh!"

In an instant, all one thousand clones, including Ye Qianqian, collapsed to the ground. Crushed by the gravity, they could not even get back up, as if a mountain were pressing down on their backs. Even breathing was incredibly difficult, and some of them directly turned into smoke.

Ye Qianqian cursed furiously, "You bunch of idiotic morons, are you satisfied now?"

The clones shouted in unison, "You're right. I, Ye Qianqian, really am an idiotic moron!"