Heaven Devouring Earth Eating Great Art (Please Keep Reading!!!)

For an assessment involving eating steamed buns, he was going to teach an Ultimate Art just to get a perfect score?

Xu Yuan was not an idiot.

Put plainly, it was merely a few Soul Power circulation techniques to aid digestion.

Any ordinary Soul Master could achieve a similar effect by circulating Soul Power. Otherwise, the assessment would not have specifically forbidden the use of Soul Power.

Xu Yuan's technique merely made the effect somewhat stronger.

That was all.

He called it an Ultimate Art partly to draw the little fatty's attention, and partly because Xu Yuan had intended to continue refining these techniques and truly develop them into an Ultimate Art.

It was the seed of a future Ultimate Art.

That still counted as an Ultimate Art.

Nothing wrong with that.

The little fatty was not helping Xu Yuan for some Ultimate Art, either. He was simply curious and kind-hearted, and since he still had some energy to spare, he chose to help Xu Yuan.

Xu Lizhi was not stupid, either. While he might not have considered deeper benefits and drawbacks, such as hidden score bonuses, he at least knew Xu Yuan would never hand over an Ultimate Art just for a few steamed buns.

Or rather, no Ultimate Art could possibly be so cheap.

Even if it was only a few digestion-aiding techniques, Xu Lizhi felt it was worth it.

"Watch closely, little fatty. This is my Heaven Devouring Earth Eating Great Art!" Soul Power began circulating within Xu Yuan's body.

The surrounding Heaven and Earth Origin Qi gathered around him. Faintly, five elements converged and entered his body.

"Hm?"

In another room, Cai Yue'er, who was watching Xu Yuan through the surveillance feed, let out a startled sound.

"It isn't a scam?"

She froze.

Although Xu Yuan had used the name of an Ultimate Art to lure the little fatty into helping him, strictly speaking, he had not deceived him.

The so-called Heaven Devouring Earth Eating Great Art was an Ultimate Art Xu Yuan had developed himself. It could indeed be considered a prototype, rather than merely a summary of techniques, though it required certain prerequisites.

Of course, even without fulfilling those prerequisites or mastering the Five Elements, one could still simply use Xu Yuan's Soul Power circulation techniques as a reference.

Soul Power circulated through his body and flowed into his internal organs.

Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth corresponded respectively to the body's five organs. As Soul Power circulated into the corresponding organs, Xu Yuan drew in the external Five Elements and refined them into his Soul Power.

The Five Elements corresponded to the internal organs and were originally balanced through their mutual generation. As Xu Yuan circulated his Soul Power, he gradually guided the Five Elements into shifting. Fire generated Earth, increasing the proportion of the earth element within his Soul Power, and Xu Yuan used his technique to reflect this change onto his bodily organs.

Reflecting elemental inclinations onto the organs was the core of Xu Yuan's method.

Earth corresponded to the stomach and spleen.

As his stomach function strengthened, coupled with Soul Power's all-around enhancement of his stomach, the steamed buns in Xu Yuan's stomach were rapidly digested.

As streams of energy were digested, the spleen transformed them into spleen qi, which became qi to replenish the lungs. Thus, Earth generated Gold. Gold then generated Water, as the lungs' refined fluids descended to nourish kidney essence, while lung qi descended to help the kidneys draw in qi.

Water generated Wood. The kidneys stored essence to nourish liver blood, while kidney yin supported liver yin and prevented liver yang from rising excessively.

Wood generated Fire. The liver stored blood to aid the heart, while the liver's dispersing function helped the heart circulate blood.

Then Fire generated Earth once more.

The Five Elements generated one another, endlessly giving rise to each other.

Through this cycle, the internal organs were affected and mobilized, which in turn affected his entire body, transporting the energy gained from digestion throughout him.

Xu Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

The steamed buns in his stomach had already been almost completely digested and absorbed. While they transformed into Soul Power, his qi and blood also became more abundant, and the physical strength he had expended earlier was nearly fully restored.

The little fatty looked astonished.

In the observation room, Cai Yue'er was similarly deep in thought.

An Ultimate Art that used the Five Elements to promote digestion?

Which sect was it from?

Or was it some new research result from the Spirit Pagoda?

"Little fatty—"

"My name is Xu Lizhi."

"Alright, little fatty. Have you mastered the Five Elements?"

Xu Lizhi shook his head blankly.

Xu Yuan waved a hand.

"It's fine. The efficiency will just be a little lower, but it's still more effective than ordinary techniques. You're also taking the Inner Courtyard assessment, right? Once you enter the Inner Courtyard, come find me and I'll teach you this Ultimate Art."

Xu Lizhi nodded, not worried that Xu Yuan was lying to him.

There was no way he could be lying.

Ye Xinglan watched from the side, and the frown on her face gradually eased. When she noticed Xu Yuan looking her way, she snorted and turned her head, no longer glaring at him.

"Junior, your Heaven Devouring Earth Eating Great Art is pretty impressive," Wang Hao remarked. Having experienced it firsthand from nearby, he could sense the changes in Xu Yuan's Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

In such a short time, he had digested the energy from that huge amount of steamed buns and replenished both his physical strength and Soul Power.

"Actually, my Ultimate Art still has many areas that need improvement. I'll probably need the little fatty's help in the future," Xu Yuan said with a chuckle.

Xu Yuan had not created his Heaven Devouring Earth Eating Great Art from nothing. Although the idea of the Five Elements corresponding to the internal organs had been inspired by concepts from his previous life, its true core was still matching the elemental inclinations of Soul Power to bodily organs, strengthening the five internal organs more accurately and effectively, and further driving the fusion of the Five Elements with the internal organs.

To achieve all this, he could not do without Soul Power circulation—the routes it traveled through the Meridians within the body.

Using his uncle's authority, he had investigated the Soul Power circulation of Soul Masters with different Five Elements Attributes. Only after gathering a large number of Meditation Methods that those Soul Masters had revised and adjusted themselves had he been able to summarize these findings.

If not for Xu Shengqun, how could those Soul Masters possibly have fully disclosed their own Meditation Methods? Those were the circulation routes of Soul Power within their bodies. If someone targeted them and discovered weaknesses in their Soul Power circulation, they would be in serious trouble.

For now, Xu Yuan did not lack material on the circulation paths of Soul Power with Five Elements Attributes, but he still lacked material in other areas.

For example, he needed the Soul Power circulation characteristics of Soul Masters like Xu Lizhi, who were born able to eat and possessed exceptional digestive abilities.

He also needed Shrek's records: Xuan Zi's Meditation Method from ten thousand years ago, as well as the Meditation Methods of Soul Masters recorded by Shrek over the past twenty thousand years whose Martial Souls possessed devouring characteristics and outstanding digestive abilities.

As for why he did not obtain them from the Spirit Pagoda?

Heh. Spirit Pagoda Soul Masters placed greater emphasis on Soul Spirits. Even if their Martial Souls possessed relevant traits, how much could they really apply those traits to their Meditation Methods?

The Body Sect did have sufficient records, but they were more related to qi and blood and could serve as a complement.

Back to the point.

Although Xu Yuan's Heaven Devouring Earth Eating Great Art appeared to have taken a major step toward completion, it was actually still far from finished.

He had only been researching it for half a year.

How could he possibly have completely perfected the process of matching the Five Elements to the internal organs? He had not even fully optimized all the Soul Power circulation routes he had collected.

"Alright. The three of you are all taking the Inner Courtyard assessment, so you'll proceed together from here. The next stage is actual combat, testing your overall combat ability."

Wang Hao and the teacher who had previously accompanied Ye Xinglan led the three of them toward the next stage.

This time, they arrived in an enormous circular room. Their opponents had already been arranged, with ten opponents lined up before Xu Yuan's group.

Don't try to stir things up. The protagonist isn't an idiot, so how could he possibly teach an Ultimate Art just to get a perfect score on an assessment?

First, the Ultimate Art had only been developed for half a year, and it also required Five Elements Control. Without that ability, it was at most a technique for enhancing digestion. Second, the protagonist would need Xu Lizhi's cooperation to refine this Ultimate Art in the future.