Douluo: Furnace Meridians, Confronting Gangzi from the Start
Chapter 16

Indestructible Diamond Body

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This herb was one of the few in the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye capable of enhancing mental power: the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew.

The Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew could significantly boost a user's mental power.

If one practiced techniques assisted by spirit-type eyes, consuming the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew offered a chance to cultivate the Fiery Golden Eyes, allowing one to see through all manner of strange objects.

However, these were exaggerated claims.

In reality, if one's mental power was strong enough, one could perceive the information one wished to know in detail through mental power alone, even without using one's eyes.

Speaking of mental power, Wang Chen thought of the Dream God who had attempted to possess his body.

The Dream God's research into mental power was likely at the top tier across the entire Douluo Continent.

Since the opponent's mental power was so formidable and they were adept at utilizing it, they surely must have possessed a technique for cultivating mental power.

Wang Chen immediately contacted the Divine Spark Seed, "Divine Spark Seed, do you have the Dream God's cultivation technique?"

"I do!"

Following this, the Divine Spark Seed transmitted the information.

Wang Chen felt a meditation method named the Dream God Visualization Method appear in his mind.

The Dream God Visualization Method used the Dream God as the object of visualization; by circulating the Soul Power within one's body, it could slowly increase mental power.

As for the Dream God, they could use the Dream God Visualization Method to slowly alter the cognition of those practicing it, turning the practitioner into their most loyal believer or even a puppet.

Fortunately, the Divine Spark Seed informed Wang Chen of how the Dream God created this technique, letting Wang Chen understand how the Dream God used the Dream God Visualization Method to change a person's thoughts bit by bit.

For others, if they wanted to practice the Dream God Visualization Method to increase their mental power, they could only do so while enduring the danger of being transformed by the Dream God into a loyal believer or puppet.

Otherwise, they would have to abandon the technique.

But Wang Chen was different; he had the Meridian Martial Soul and could sense the subtle changes in Soul Power as it flowed through his meridians.

He could modify the technique, and with the Dream God Visualization Method as a foundation, he could use the Dream God's experience in creating the technique as a reference for his revisions.

Wang Chen did not need to start from scratch, did not need to blindly try and fail, and did not need to use an exhaustive method to test it line by line.

This meant Wang Chen did not need to waste a large amount of useless time.

"Time is tight now. Once Dugu Bo finishes treating Dugu Yan's illness and tests the method I left for her to deal with the Jade Phosphor Serpent martial soul's poison backlash, he should come to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye."

"I cannot stay here for long."

"Now is not the right time to try and create a mental power cultivation technique based on the Dream God Visualization Method."

"However, even if I cannot create a new technique, I can at least clear away the harmful cultivation paths in the Dream God Visualization Method that influence my thoughts and cause me to fall into becoming a loyal believer or puppet of the Dream God, turning it into a pure mental-power-enhancing technique."

"It's just that the cultivation effect of the technique will be a cut below the original Dream God Visualization Method."

But this meant nothing to Wang Chen.

In the future, he would have plenty of time to slowly improve the effectiveness of the technique for cultivating mental power.

He might even create a mental power cultivation method best suited to his own physique and meridians.

Following the information from the Divine Spark Seed, Wang Chen used the Dream God Visualization Method as a base and began to cultivate his modified technique.

Half an hour later, Wang Chen finally deleted the meridian circulation routes in the Dream God Visualization Method that caused mental alienation, while preserving the complete technique capable of cultivating mental power.

This technique could be considered a remnant of the Dream God Visualization Method, but it was an effective remnant for absorbing mental power.

Wang Chen circulated the technique, feeling the changes in Soul Power and mental power as it executed through his meridians, while simultaneously familiarizing himself with the method.

A quarter of an hour passed, and after Wang Chen had thoroughly mastered the new technique, he looked at the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew before him. He reached out, raised it to his face, tilted it slightly, and dripped a few drops of the transparent liquid into his mouth.

The moment the liquid entered his mouth, Wang Chen felt his spirit receive an instantaneous stimulation, as if his mental power had increased by a small fraction in a heartbeat.

Of course, this was false; it was merely Wang Chen's illusion.

The Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew could increase mental power, but it was far from reaching the point where just smelling it would grant a noticeable boost.

Afterward, Wang Chen swallowed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew. Immediately, he felt a cool sensation radiating from the medicine within his body—that was the medicinal power being released.

Wang Chen circulated his technique, guiding this cool energy to run along specific routes to refine it.

Finally, this cool energy was completely refined by Wang Chen, transforming into a stream of pure mental power that was sent into his sea of consciousness.

After Wang Chen's soul absorbed this mental energy, his soul strength increased by a tiny bit.

Following this, Wang Chen continued to refine the medicinal power of the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew until he had absorbed it all.

Wang Chen let out a long breath.

In the original story, Tang San practiced the Purple Demon Eye and consumed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, which allowed him to absorb a ten-thousand-year soul ring as his fourth soul ring.

Wang Chen now possessed the Dream God's divine armor fragments, a two-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast's external skull bone, and had absorbed the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew using the Dream God's remnant technique.

In terms of mental power, he should be able to withstand the impact of a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast.

Besides, Wang Chen had the Divine Spark Seed as a safety net; he did not fear the soul shock of a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast at all.

After absorbing the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, Wang Chen came to the next medicinal herb.

He looked at it from bottom to top.

The herb before him stood tall and upright, its stem as hard as jade, and its leaves a deep, glowing green.

The flower was massive and deep purple, its petals layered and dense with a fuzzy texture.

The stamen rose half a foot above the petals, capped with a shimmering golden light.

Even when brought right up to his eyes, he could not smell a single trace of scent.

This was the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, a neutral-attribute immortal herb containing the diamond property, capable of invigorating the limbs, clearing the eight extraordinary meridians, and even forging an Indestructible Diamond Body.

It was arguably the most suitable immortal herb within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye for Wang Chen to replenish the origin of his Meridian Martial Soul and catalyze its transformation.

Wang Chen used a jade blade to cut the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, leaving the roots in the soil.

Then, Wang Chen bit off the stamen in one go, chewing it thoroughly before swallowing.

As he consumed the stamen, Wang Chen felt a faint sweetness spread through his mouth.

Once it reached his stomach, a warm current radiated from the stamen.

Wang Chen circulated his Soul Power, guiding this medicinal energy to flow throughout his meridians.

Wang Chen could feel that wherever the energy passed, his meridians—like a parched riverbed suddenly flooded with water—drank it in greedily.

Under the nourishment of the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum stamen, Wang Chen's meridians grew stronger bit by bit.

Beyond his meridians, Wang Chen's blood and vitality also gradually intensified during this process.

At the same time, Wang Chen felt that as he adjusted his cultivation technique based on the information fed back by his Meridian Martial Soul, his meridians and his entire body began to emit a faint golden glow while he absorbed the stamen.

Wang Chen watched the changes in his body with pleasant surprise.

If he wasn't mistaken, he had truly discovered the possibility of cultivating an Indestructible Diamond Body.

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