Nine Revolutions Viscera Refining Secret Record

"Identity Jade Token."

At the entrance to the Myriad Scrolls Pavilion, a gray-robed old man with a full head of white hair sat behind a mottled black ironwood desk, his eyes half-lidded and his voice languid.

Qin Jue stepped forward and handed over his token.

The old man did not even lift his eyelids. He casually took the token and placed it on an Array Plate on the desk.

"Bzzz—"

The Array Plate gave a soft hum, and several lines of tiny characters appeared in midair.

The old steward's half-lidded eyes abruptly opened a crack. He glanced at the numbers on the Array Plate, a hint of surprise in his voice. "Hm? Qin Jue, one hundred and eighty-six Battle Merit?"

Only then did the old man look up and properly size Qin Jue up for the first time. Seeing that although the youth was dressed plainly, his aura was steady and his gaze perfectly calm, without the slightest ripple, he couldn't help but nod inwardly.

"According to the academy's rules, anyone with more than one hundred and sixty Battle Merit may borrow two Mortal Tier High-grade cultivation methods or martial skills from the first floor of the Myriad Scrolls Pavilion this month."

The old steward tossed the token onto the desk and returned to his languid manner. "You have two hours to choose. Do not damage the jade slips or make unauthorized copies. Go on in."

"Thank you, Steward."

Qin Jue took back his token and stepped through the Light Screen.

The first floor of the Myriad Scrolls Pavilion was incredibly spacious, spanning several hundred zhang. A faint scent of ink lingered in the air.

Hundreds of bookshelves stood in neat rows, packed with all kinds of jade slips and books made of beast hide. Faint streams of restrictive light curled around every jade slip.

Quite a few Outer Court Disciples were already choosing cultivation methods in the hall, each holding their breath and concentrating intently.

Qin Jue's gaze swept over them without lingering. He went straight through the crowd and headed toward the premium section at the back of the hall.

He knew exactly what he wanted—Mortal Tier High-grade cultivation methods.

In Skywind Martial City, most of the cultivation methods circulating on the market were Mortal Tier Low-grade. Mortal Tier Mid-grade methods were already worth a fortune, while Mortal Tier High-grade methods were the limit of what Outer Court Disciples could access.

These methods were usually profound and far-reaching, each containing several completely different and mysterious variations. If an ordinary person spent their whole life mastering just one of them, they would be more than strong enough to dominate the Outer Prefecture.

As for peerless geniuses with divine comprehension and vast resources backing them, they could naturally try to cultivate multiple paths at once.

Although it consumed several times more resources than ordinary cultivation, like a terrifying bottomless pit, mastering it would give them a perfect foundation!

When they later broke through to the legendary Nascent Core Realm, that perfect foundation would become the sturdiest of stairways, helping them ascend to heaven in a single bound.

Qin Jue took a deep breath. He knew very well that cultivation methods were tied to one's martial foundation. If he chose the wrong one, it would bring endless trouble in the future!

He walked up to a bookshelf and casually pulled out a scarlet-red cultivation manual.

Crimson Whale Devouring Sea Record.

Qin Jue opened it and was immediately shaken to his core.

What a domineering cultivation method! It devoured massive quantities of resources and turned them into surging blood and qi.

It also had three mysterious variations: cultivate a pure foundation, refine domineering blood and qi, and comprehend force. With them, one's physique would be as sturdy as a mountain, and one would be unstoppable.

But what truly tempted Qin Jue was the blood-red writing at the end of the manual—

"Cultivate all three methods together, and devour all things. On the day of success, the cultivator's body will become a sea of blood and qi, with more than ten times the blood and qi of others at the same level!"

Ten times the blood and qi! What a terrifying amount! Such temptation was enough to drive any martial artist mad!

Yet Qin Jue merely shook his head and put the manual back.

The method was powerful, but it was a bottomless pit! To "devour all things like a whale," one first needed "all things" to devour! With his current means, if he tried to cultivate it by force, he'd be drained into a dried corpse in less than three days!

"A fine method, but it doesn't suit me right now."

Qin Jue glanced around and picked up a jade booklet beside it.

Three Treasures Jade Marrow Skill.

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"Washing the marrow and cleansing the body, with life force unceasing?"

This method specialized in tempering the bone marrow. It purified the marrow until it was flawless, producing precious blood filled with immense vitality and thus transforming the practitioner to a higher level of life.

The book recorded three mysterious manifestations of precious light. If the three lights could be combined, the body would become perfectly pure, and its affinity with the vital energy of heaven and earth would reach an incredible level. In the future, any cultivation method one switched to could be mastered with twice the speed and half the effort.

"A pity. It's gentle and steady, but lacks killing power."

The method sounded impressive, but in the early stages it had almost no offensive power. It was purely a slow, grinding process, and who knew how long it would take to get anywhere! For scions of great families under their Lineage's protection, it might be an unparalleled method for building a foundation, but Qin Jue couldn't afford to wait!

Qin Jue's gaze swept quickly across the bookshelves.

There, a black metal scroll lay.

Nine Revolutions Viscera Refining Secret Record!

Qin Jue's heart stirred as he reached out and picked up the iron scroll. It was cold to the touch and unusually heavy; he couldn't tell what kind of metal it was made from.

He opened the first page, and a line of dark-red characters came into view:

"The five viscera are the furnace, heaven and earth the fuel! This method has nine revolutions, and each revolution is nine deaths! Anyone without great perseverance and a grand spirit who dares cultivate this method will surely have their five viscera burned to ashes!"

Qin Jue turned the pages one by one, his eyes growing brighter and brighter!

Ordinary cultivation methods all tempered the body from the outside in.

But this Nine Revolutions Viscera Refining Secret Record did the exact opposite. From the very first page, it targeted the body's most vital—and most dangerous—organs: the five viscera!

He had never heard of a method like this! Domineering! Truly domineering to the extreme!

The method explained that it used an incredibly domineering breathing technique to draw the vital energy of heaven and earth into the body, repeatedly washing the five viscera and six bowels as if refining iron, thereby driving the tempering of the skin and bones from the inside out!

As he continued reading, Qin Jue discovered that this method had five mysterious variations, corresponding to the Five Divine Treasuries—

Refine the heart like a pump. Let the heartbeat pound like a war drum, instantly compressing the blood throughout the body until it boiled and unleashing terrifying strength beyond all limits.

Strengthen the liver like wood. Lock in every trace of vitality so that a hundred poisons cannot invade. Wounds heal visibly fast, like withered wood greeting spring, bringing forth life without end.

Fortify the kidneys like the sea. With kidney water brimming, one's vital essence rises skyward like a column of smoke. Endurance surpasses all one's peers, and fatigue becomes an unknown thing.

Moisten the lungs to give birth to thunder. The viscera contain the rumbling of tigers and leopards. With a single roar, sound waves surge like tides, capable of shattering an enemy's courage.

Strengthen the spleen into a furnace. Anything swallowed is instantly stripped of its essence and turned into a surging stream of heat that replenishes the whole body. One becomes a Fierce Beast in human form.

For an ordinary person, choosing just one of these paths would already be the best possible choice.

But at the end of the scroll was a record of an ultimate path that made Qin Jue's breath catch—

"The five viscera correspond to the five elements, each generating and overcoming the others. Heart fire generates spleen earth, spleen earth generates lung metal, lung metal generates kidney water, kidney water generates liver wood, and liver wood generates heart fire. If one can refine all five viscera and forge a five-element cycle, one will achieve [Five Elements Unity: Inner Heaven and Earth]!"

"Once this path is perfected, the cultivator's body will form a perfect cycle within itself, becoming an endless loop of life. Recovery, explosive power, and endurance will all reach an incredible level! There will be no need to actively circulate the method; the body will heal its own injuries and increase its blood and qi! This is the strongest foundation for breaking through to the Nascent Core Realm!"

"However—this path consumes more than five times the resources of specializing in a single path! Anyone without great perseverance, great wealth, and great comprehension must never attempt it lightly!"

Qin Jue's hands trembled slightly as he read this far.

This method of cultivation was perilous to the extreme.

An ordinary person's viscera were extremely delicate. The slightest mistake would let the violent vital energy tear them to shreds. At best, the five viscera would bleed heavily and the meridians snap; at worst, the practitioner would suffer cultivation deviation and die on the spot.

And refining all five viscera at once—how much more difficult would that be than refining just one?

But in Qin Jue's eyes, this was an unparalleled method made for him!

Ordinary people don't dare practice it because their perception is too vague to precisely control the tiny strand of vital energy entering the body. The slightest deviation means utter ruin. But I've awakened the Void Clarity Sword Heart. My perception is several times sharper than an ordinary person's, and I can control vital energy and blood and qi with exquisite precision. The greatest risk doesn't exist for me at all!

Besides, although refining all five viscera consumes a huge amount of resources, once I complete the first revolution, the functions of all five viscera will strengthen together, and I'll generate blood and qi several times faster than a martial artist at the same level! Whether it's endurance, recovery, or instantaneous explosive power, I'll crush anyone at the same level!

Qin Jue knew very well that in this world of the survival of the fittest, explosive power and recovery were often the difference between life and death.

"This is the one."