Cultivation Speculation, World Information

The Jade Tablet displayed the following:

Black Water Profound Yin Art (Art, Foundation Establishment)

Cultivation Method: Collect the kidneys of nine living creatures, combine with Mandala Flower, Nether Grass, and Profound Yin Vine, grind into a juice, arrange a ritual cloth, inscribe the Black Water Profound Yin Incantation, sense the essence of the nine-spirit kidneys within the formation, absorb it into the body, circulate it through the meridians a hundred times, and store it in the kidneys to form Profound Yin Black Water essence.

Innate Spell: Profound Yin Black Water. Once struck, the black water drains the yang, leading to death.

Cost: Lifelong celibacy.

Black Water Art (Art, Foundation Establishment)

Cultivation Method: Collect Black Profound Ganoderma, Nine Yin Grass, dew from a full moon night, Nether Fruit, and Profound Yin Ink Stone, grind into a juice, inscribe the Black Water Incantation over the kidney area, sense one's own kidney essence, circulate it through the meridians, transform it into Black Water essence, and return it to the kidneys to nourish the kidney marrow.

Innate Spell: True Yin Black Water. Those struck have their vitality stolen, leading to death by freezing.

Cost: None.

Looking at these cultivation methods, a strange expression flickered in Li Qing's eyes.

This art cultivates kidney essence; it is completely different from the Spirit Blood Art.

Could it be that the cultivation arts of this world all correspond to the essence of different parts of the human body?

Furthermore, the storage locations for this essence are not entirely the same.

It can be stored in the blood, it can be stored in the kidneys, and perhaps it can even be stored in the meridians and the Dantian.

Depending on the source of the essence, the storage location also varies.

The sources of essence are also quite diverse.

For instance, almost all the arts I have obtained rely on plundering the essence of other living creatures to cultivate.

After being modified by the Jade Tablet, they almost all rely on cultivating my own essence.

There is definitely something wrong here. Based on all the scriptures and books I have obtained, the Jade Tablet's function is to optimize everything.

If these arts have all been optimized to refine one's own essence, it means this method is safer and more reliable.

The fact that there is no cost associated with the second one proves this.

Moreover, based on the different locations where the essence is stored, these arts do not seem to interfere with one another.

Could I cultivate multiple arts?

His heart stirred with excitement. Could I walk the path of smelting a hundred schools into one?

The human body has five viscera and six bowels, eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and tongue, skin, membranes, muscles, and bones, brain, marrow, and blood.

If each has a different type of essence, there could be at least twenty or thirty different types of arts.

If I can collect them all and cultivate them simultaneously,

Then I could store different essences in every part of my body, possessing different innate spells.

Would I be ten times stronger than others at the same cultivation level?

The more he thought about it, the more excited Li Qing became; this was indeed a possibility.

But he quickly suppressed his inner restlessness.

No, I must not be impatient.

This is a Cthulhu Cultivation World; anything related to power could potentially harbor unknown dangers.

If I cultivate different essences, could it lead to a conflict of energies and eventually turn me into a monster?

I must acquire more knowledge before I can determine if it is possible to cultivate several different types of essence at once.

He turned his gaze toward another book.

This book was a diary, recording some matters regarding his attacker.

Li Qing began to read the diary carefully, absorbing the various pieces of information bit by bit.

An hour passed in the blink of an eye, and Li Qing had gained a general understanding of the cultivation landscape in this world.

The man who attacked him was named Wang Dexiu, and he hailed from a sect called the Black Water Profound Sect.

This sect was merely a small Taoist temple, and the temple master was only a peak Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Wang Dexiu was one of his five disciples.

The reason Wang Dexiu had defected from the Black Water Profound Sect was that he discovered the temple master was treating them as "Great Medicine."

The Black Water Profound Yin Art they were made to cultivate seemed to be an auxiliary art for another technique.

Once they reached the Body Strengthening stage, the master would kill them, cut out their kidneys while they were still alive, and refine them into Great Medicine, extracting the kidney essence for his own cultivation.

Wang Dexiu had discovered this because he found the corpses of two senior brothers who had gone out for training.

All of them had had their kidneys removed.

It was then that he knew his master had a problem.

He found an opportunity to escape from the Black Water Profound Sect, and after a long, arduous journey, he finally settled in Jade City.

A few years ago, unable to bear the loneliness any longer, he visited a brothel and broke his vows.

His troubles began from that moment on; he discovered two tentacles growing out of his body, right from the location of his kidneys.

Black, festering sores also sprouted across his skin, frequently causing him unbearable agony that required special medicine to suppress.

Furthermore, he developed a keen interest in flesh and blood, knowing full well that his alienation had begun.

The street where he set up his stall was called Hundred Gates Alley, implying that anyone, regardless of their background, could enter.

In Jade City, the majority of cultivators were at the Foundation Establishment level, with a total population of at least one thousand.

They all possessed their own public identities, hiding among the masses while cultivating and absorbing the essence of the city.

Many of the shops in Hundred Gates Alley were chains belonging to major sects, spread throughout the entire Great Tang Dynasty.

These sects did not accept Dharma Coins; they only accepted spiritual herbs, ores, magical artifacts, or special materials.

Alternatively, one could offer various exotic cultivation techniques, spells, or divine abilities, which would then be valued in Essence Stones to purchase items from their shops.

As long as you possessed something sufficiently precious, you could buy almost anything you desired from them.

Even inherited cultivation techniques were potentially within reach.

Therefore, a large number of Rogue Cultivators would rack their brains to explore ancient ruins or dangerous lands in search of various treasures.

In the diary of Wang Dexiu, there were clear records regarding some of the Dao Lineages within the Great Tang Dynasty.

The Dao Lineages of the entire world were roughly divided into seven categories.

The Daoist Sect, the Buddhist Sect, the Confucian Sect, the Demonic Path, the Ghost Path, the Monster Path, and the Hundred Schools of Thought.

Whether residing in the halls of power or hidden within the common world, they guided the development of human society and dominated everything throughout history.

This was a vast world, containing countless legendary tales, and the practitioners within these Dao Lineages were the true masters of this world.

Rogue Cultivators like them were at the very bottom of the hierarchy, exhausting every possible means just to trade for the resources and techniques they needed from these true Dao Lineages.

Wang Dexiu had heard legends that in some truly massive cities, there were populations in the tens of millions.

The infinite essence generated daily would be collected by the Dao Lineages and transformed into mysterious Blessed Lands.

Blessed Lands were never located in the mountains, rivers, or the Four Seas; they existed right within the bustling human world.

Regarding the realms of cultivation, Wang Dexiu did not know much.

He only knew of the Foundation Establishment Realm and the True Method Realm, with the Foundation Establishment Realm divided into three stages.

Essence Refining, Body Strengthening, and Human Tribulation!

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