Good and Evil Divine Art

"So soon? I didn't feel a thing. That teleportation was on a whole other level, wow..."

Zhang Yunhao came to and opened his eyes, finding himself back in the familiar room, standing behind the door. As he regained consciousness, the excruciating pain returned as well, making him suck in a cold breath before hurriedly sitting down by the bed.

At that moment, the system said, "Martial Immortal selected. Do you accept the inheritance?"

"It picked one already? Please don't let it be the Sunflower Martial Immortal!"

Ignoring the agony wracking his body, Zhang Yunhao hurriedly asked, "Which Martial Immortal is it?"

The system said, "It is the Righteous Martial Immortal!"

"The Righteous Martial Immortal? Wait, I may not know much about this Martial Immortal, but I can guess a thing or two from the name. Are you kidding me? How did anything I did before have the slightest thing to do with righteousness?"

Zhang Yunhao was thoroughly dumbfounded. He had killed so many people and even destroyed the bodies and erased the traces. No matter how one looked at it, he had been ruthless and vicious, hadn't he? And now he was being given the Righteous Martial Immortal's inheritance?

Could this be the legendary: although I killed many people, although I destroyed the bodies and erased the traces, I was actually still a good person?

But these days, "good person" had become a derogatory term. Being a good person meant suffering losses, so nobody wanted to be one!

Although Zhang Yunhao had died saving someone in his previous life, he truly had no intention of being a good person. When he was young, he had wanted to become Hero Guo, but when he grew older, all his attention had shifted to Hero Guo's wife.

The system replied, "The Righteous Martial Immortal's martial art is called the Good and Evil Divine Art. It is not merely about righteousness. It is an immortal-level martial art that uses good and evil to seek one's true self."

Zhang Yunhao became interested. "Good and Evil Divine Art? How exactly does it work?"

"The Good and Evil Divine Art is a divine art that can rapidly increase one's power through either good deeds or evil acts. After cultivating it, your comprehension will greatly improve, allowing you to quickly learn other martial arts. You may even use Good and Evil True Qi to reproduce the effects of all martial arts."

The system explained in detail, "Whether one does good or evil, once either reaches a certain extent, it can completely extinguish the other side. The Righteous Martial Immortal chose to do good and ultimately became the Righteous Martial Immortal. As for whether you become a Righteous Martial Immortal or an Evil Martial Immortal, that is your own choice."

"Is that so? The Good and Evil Divine Art? Am I a good person or a bad person?"

Zhang Yunhao blinked. Though he did not want to be a good person, neither did he want to be a bad person. This Good and Evil Divine Art was rather interesting.

The system asked again, "Do you accept the inheritance?"

Zhang Yunhao hastily said, "I accept. It can improve my comprehension, let me rapidly learn every martial art, and even allow me to advance quickly through good deeds or evil acts. Why wouldn't I accept such an excellent martial art?"

The system said, "Inheritance commencing. A Martial Immortal inheritance is no trifling matter. It does not merely contain a cultivation method; it will also use a thread of Martial Immortal Power to transform your body, making it suited to cultivate this divine art. The process will bring intense pain. Please endure it. The longer you endure, the greater the benefits you receive."

Zhang Yunhao did not fear pain, but he recalled something and hurriedly said, "Wait, I still need to treat my injuries!"

"Inheritance commencing!"

As always, the system ignored Zhang Yunhao. A hot current suddenly surged from the depths of his soul and spread through all four limbs and every bone in an instant. At first, it was pleasantly warm and exceptionally comfortable. Even his injuries began healing beneath the hot current, including his broken bones.

But the next moment, that hot current became knives, endlessly slicing every part of Zhang Yunhao's body. He did not know what it felt like to be cut into a thousand pieces, but he felt it could not be much different from this.

Zhang Yunhao wanted to scream, to roll on the floor, to smash his head against the ground, but he discovered that he had lost control of his body. He could neither move nor cry out, which only made the pain even more unbearable.

I can't pass out. I have to hold on. I have to become an immortal. Only by becoming an immortal can I live forever, possess the greatest freedom, and do whatever I want.

Before this agonizing pain that made him want to kill himself, Zhang Yunhao desperately held on and refused to lose consciousness. He knew that the longer he endured, the greater his chance of becoming a Martial Immortal.

For eighteen years, becoming a Martial Immortal had long been the firmest conviction in Zhang Yunhao's heart. Once he became a Martial Immortal, he could fulfill any dream!

A Martial Immortal was everything!

As the pain went on and he continued enduring, Zhang Yunhao's consciousness gradually blurred, yet he still held on until he lost consciousness completely.

He remained unconscious for a full day and night. When Zhang Yunhao slowly woke, the first thing he noticed was the stench—an utterly vile stench. Looking down, he saw that his arms and other parts of his body were covered in a layer of black filth that gave off a nauseating odor.

"Could this be the legendary tendon transformation and marrow cleansing? In other words, my aptitude has improved. Wonderful!"

Zhang Yunhao was overjoyed. At the same time, much new knowledge had appeared in his mind: the cultivation method of the Good and Evil Divine Art, which could be cultivated all the way to the Martial Immortal Realm!

"An immortal-level martial art, it really is an immortal-level martial art! Hahaha!"

Zhang Yunhao clenched his fists tightly, unable to contain his excitement. In this world, martial arts were divided into low, middle, and high grades, followed by earth, heaven, saint, and immortal grades.

Among them, immortal-grade cultivation methods were undoubtedly the most precious, but no complete immortal-grade martial arts remained in the Jianghu!

More than a thousand years ago, Martial Immortals had existed in this world. But one day, all the Martial Immortals mysteriously vanished together. Countless people coveted the immortal-grade martial arts they left behind, and after innumerable bloody struggles, those immortal-grade martial arts had become incomplete.

For example, the Demon Sect originally possessed the Wutian Demonic Art left behind by Wutian Ancestor, but now the nine branches of the Demon Sect each possessed one portion of it, and none of their copies were complete.

The True Dragon Heart Method left behind by the Dragon Martial Immortal, which the system had mentioned earlier, had likewise long been lost. Otherwise, the Imperial Court of the Martial Immortal Empire would not be so weak, able to control only the capital region while every other place had become a complete mess—the Martial Immortal Empire was the empire founded by the Dragon Martial Immortal!

If others learned that Zhang Yunhao possessed an immortal-grade martial art, everyone in the entire Jianghu would surely come fighting desperately to seize it. In fact, even a heaven-grade martial art would stir up a storm of blood and gore every time one appeared!

Eighteen years of hardship in exchange for this immortal-grade martial art was absolutely worth it. With this immortal martial art, his future would be boundless, and he was destined to be looked up to by others—not to mention that he also had the Martial Immortal Inheritance System!

"Fated to be a menial servant? I'm fated to become an immortal!"

Zhang Yunhao sneered. He had waited too long for this day and was already unable to wait any longer. After washing himself clean, he sat cross-legged without even putting on clothes and began breaking through according to the cultivation method.

"Heaven and earth have yin and yang; humans are divided into good and evil. Do good and accumulate merit; do evil and gain karmic force..."

The mnemonic verse of the Good and Evil Divine Art echoed through Zhang Yunhao's mind. He used his mind to visualize himself, with a kind and benevolent figure on the left, while the one on the right had a fiendish visage. They represented the Good and Evil Divine Art.

As the visualization gradually became clear, Zhang Yunhao placed his hands over the position of his lower abdomen's Dantian. The good and evil figures he visualized made the same motion. Then, the power of his blood and qi was stirred by a force and began circulating rapidly, faster and faster.

When his blood and qi reached their limit, all of its power condensed in an instant and crashed into his Dantian like a flood. As if breaking through a dam, his Dantian opened in an instant, revealing a profound and mysterious space for true qi.

Then, under the effects of the cultivation method, Zhang Yunhao's essence was refined into threads of true qi divided into two utterly distinct kinds—the Benevolent True Qi, warm as sunlight and supremely hard and yang, and the Evil True Qi, chilling to the bone and supremely wicked and yin.

More and more true qi was refined. Before long, it had reached the size of a soybean. Then the two different types of true qi intertwined, forming a special spiral vortex!

This was Innate True Qi!

The ordinary true qi used in normal combat was evolved from this vortex and could be replenished at any time after use. But if Innate True Qi was consumed, not only would one's power decline, it would also leave irreparable damage.

Cultivation meant cultivating Innate True Qi. Only when fighting for one's life would one use Innate True Qi. If one transmitted power to another, the power used would also be Innate True Qi. Otherwise, if ordinary true qi could be passed to someone else, cultivated, and then passed on again, would not everyone become an expert?

At the center of the spiral vortex floated a mysterious little black-and-white bead. It was the core of the Good and Evil Divine Art, called the Good and Evil Bead. Whenever Zhang Yunhao performed good deeds or evil acts, this Good and Evil Bead would transform the merit and karmic force he gained into true qi.

Most of the essence of the Martial Immortal Power from before was contained within this Good and Evil Bead!