Sitting silently on the floor, Fang Can thought of creating his own cultivation technique. He recalled one technique after another from the world before the Great Cataclysm.
God Elephant Suppressing Prison Force, Six Desires Demon-Splitting Chapter, Magnetic Field Rotation, Burning Mantra, Nine Calamities of Heaven and Man, Dragonless Mental Method, Eight-Nine Profound Art...
All kinds of techniques and their corresponding effects rose in Fang Can's mind.
But the more he visualized, the less sure he felt.
That was because visualizing a corresponding technique in his mind required not only logical consistency, but also paying the appropriate price.
Yet the price of manifesting those renowned techniques was so exorbitant that Fang Can couldn't afford it.
Description Bar:
The host's thoughts have gathered. With delusion as the foundation, flesh and blood as the altar, intent as the anchor, and vitality as the offering, visualization manifestation begins. Manifesting [God Elephant Suppressing Prison Force] Manifestation progress: 0.0000000...1% --Estimated time required: 99999999999...99 trillion years-- ...
Looking at the contents of the panel, Fang Can wasn't surprised in the slightest.
The time and effort required to create an invincible technique from nothing was far beyond what an ordinary person like him could afford.
"Then what if I lower the requirements step by step?" Fang Can pondered.
He decided not to try creating a complete technique outright. Instead, he would create a technique for the Mortal Shedding Body realm.
After visualizing with his eyes closed for the time it took an incense stick to burn, Fang Can looked at the Description Bar. This time, manifesting a Mortal Shedding Body technique with the effects of God Elephant Suppressing Prison Force would take only ninety million years.
"That's easy enough. I just need to trim the effects step by step and get the framework in place first. The universe can figure out the rest."
Fang Can lowered his head and thought, trying to get the greatest benefit out of a small budget.
"First, the energy problem. Practicing martial arts requires eating a lot, so I might as well change how energy is absorbed. Then there's efficiency. The original eighty-eight hidden spaces are too crude. I'll strengthen every cell in the body, leaving no weak point..."
With this in mind, Fang Can scaled his idea back from generating energy out of thin air, to vacuum zero-point energy, then to dark matter, and finally to sunlight.
The last issue was the foundation. Fang Can initially wanted to extend the supernatural properties deep into the atom, then settled for the molecule, downgraded it to the nanoscale, and finally reduced it to the cellular level before he could make it work.
After simplifying the requirements all the way down, Fang Can took a deep breath and looked at the Description Bar.
Description Bar:
The host's thoughts have gathered. With cells as the foundation, flesh and blood as the altar, intent as the anchor, and vitality as the offering, visualization manifestation begins. Manifesting [Initial Version of Great Sun Indestructible Demon Body] Manifestation progress: 0.000001% --Estimated time required: 594 days, 6 hours-- ...
"I can't simplify it any further."
Fang Can sighed and accepted reality. He had already cut everything he could. Any more, and the result would be worthless.
More than fifty minutes had passed since he'd swallowed a massive dose of arsenic, yet Fang Can still leaned against the windowsill without a change in expression.
Before the deadline arrived, Fang Can pulled a coin from his pocket and tossed it into the air. "Will I die of arsenic poisoning? Heads means yes, tails means no."
Watching the coin tumble and land, Fang Can had already made up his mind.
Suddenly, the manifestation time on Fang Can's panel began to plummet.
--Estimated time required: 296 days, 5 hours--
"Hmph, the arsenic is finally being absorbed?" A hint of satisfaction showed in Fang Can's eyes. He paid it no further mind and focused completely on further manifesting his visualization.
165 days... 57 days... 26 days... 18 days... 12 days... 5 days...
As the arsenic inside him—seventy or eighty times the lethal dose for an ordinary person—continued to fuse with his cells, the talents Extreme Misfortune Brings Prosperity and Unwavering Resolve were both pushed to their limits, desperate to save Fang Can, their troublesome host.
After a few minutes, Fang Can began to suffer severe gastrointestinal symptoms, including nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.
He also developed symptoms like headaches and dizziness, but ignored them all, believing they were merely hallucinations before success.
But just before he saw the deathbed visions of his life, his second talent began to exert its power.
Under the stimulation of his second talent, Fang Can's cells began to display terrifying vitality, frantically resisting the adverse effects of the arsenic mixing with his blood.
--Estimated time required: 2 hours, 30 minutes--
With his talents driving them to frenzied heights, Great Sun Indestructible Demon Body began progressing steadily.
But Jiang Ning'an, waiting outside, started to grow restless. She could feel Fang Can's originally strong, steady heartbeat weakening bit by bit, while his breathing grew faint.
"Could that guy have died in there?" Jiang Ning'an fretted.
She had always kept a cool head, but this boy had stirred her emotions again and again today. She really didn't know what to do with a lunatic like him.
She looked at the tightly shut door and hesitated. In the end, she didn't break in, but silently waited outside.
One hour... two hours... three hours...
Time crept by, and the girl's mood had become utterly bleak.
The person inside had stopped breathing and his heart had stopped beating. He was completely dead.
Guilt and other emotions welled up in the girl's heart. She felt that she had talked him into his death.
Before she could continue blaming herself, a strong heartbeat suddenly reached her ears.
"Thump... thump... thump..."
Each powerful beat grew stronger than the last, kindling hope in the girl's heart. Could that little lunatic inside really still be alive?
As she watched nervously, the doorknob in front of her turned gently, and a somewhat gaunt figure slowly walked out.
Yes, walked out. Even though not long ago, she had watched with her own eyes as Fang Can broke his own leg.
Before she could think any further, she got an even bigger shock when she saw Fang Can's face. Blood was oozing from all seven of his orifices.
"You... you're not dead?" Jiang Ning'an asked blankly.
If the person in front of her hadn't had a heartbeat, she might have thought he'd become a vengeful ghost, come to claim her life.
"Why would I be dead?"
"You're bleeding from all seven orifices, and you can still walk. Did you turn into a ghost?"
"Bleeding from all seven orifices is one thing. Being dead is another. How can they be the same?" Fang Can replied, gently wiping the dried blood from his face.
As they spoke, he glanced at the panel.
Description Bar:
You have successfully manifested the technique Great Sun Indestructible Demon Body Flesh Alienation: 3.85% ...
Unknown to anyone, as the morning sunlight outside streamed into the room, Fang Can's technique began to circulate on its own.
Fang Can's cells began actively absorbing the sunlight around him and converting it into energy to strengthen his body.
Even if Fang Can never practiced again, his degree of flesh and blood alienation would continue to rise automatically.
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