Repairing the Qi Sea

Returning to his residence, Su Fang shut the door and impatiently took out the Creation Golden Core.

This thing was exceedingly precious. Only experts at the Martial Emperor realm or above could, after death, willingly transform all their spiritual power and soul power into this golden core.

The Creation Golden Core contained all of its former owner's inheritances. It was a truly priceless treasure.

The path of the strong was divided into twelve major realms: Martial Soldier, Martial Artist, Martial General, Martial Master, Martial Sect, Martial Lord, Martial Spirit, Martial King, Martial Emperor, Martial Sovereign, Martial Saint, and Martial God.

Each realm had its corresponding standard of strength.

Martial Soldiers tempered their bodies; Martial Artists refined their bones; Martial Generals nurtured their meridians; Martial Masters could absorb qi. Upon reaching Martial Sect, one could open a Qi Sea and become an expert in their own right.

The former owner of this body had been a Martial Sect expert. Unfortunately, after his cultivation had been crippled, the Qi Sea he had opened was completely shattered, all the spiritual power in his body vanished, and all his previous cultivation came to nothing.

"It is said that the Creation Golden Core seizes the creations of heaven and earth, possessing the power to bring people back to life and reshape their bodies. I wonder if that is true."

Su Fang took out the Creation Golden Core and quickly received a piece of information.

[Creation Golden Core, transformed from Peak Martial Saint expert Xu Zhiye. Contains all of the other party's martial inheritances. A ninth-grade high-tier spiritual treasure. Do you wish to comprehend it?]

"Holy shit! A Martial Saint! A ninth-grade high-tier spiritual treasure!" Su Fang was genuinely stunned. He had never imagined that this Creation Golden Core had been transformed from a Peak Martial Saint expert!

Moreover, this golden core was of ninth-grade high-tier quality. It was just one step away from reaching the divine grade!

All spiritual treasures on the Heavenly Martial Continent were divided from first grade to ninth grade. Beyond that was the divine grade.

Throughout the entire Heavenly Martial Continent, spiritual treasures above the seventh grade were already extremely rare, much less ninth-grade ones.

"Comprehend!"

Su Fang began comprehending it. Whether he could change his fate depended on this Creation Golden Core.

After he began comprehending it, the Creation Golden Core in Su Fang's hand turned into a streak of golden light and shot straight into his body.

The next second, Su Fang's divine consciousness arrived in a mysterious space. It was an illusory world with no sky and no earth, and Su Fang seemed to be standing in midair.

Su Fang saw an old man ahead of him, his hands clasped behind his back as though he were gazing up at the heavens. Su Fang knew that this man was Xu Zhiye.

Xu Zhiye: "You have come."

Su Fang: "???"

"I, Xu Zhiye, roamed the Heavenly Martial Continent for hundreds of years in my life, yet I have only one regret. That regret kept me from entering the Divine Realm for the rest of my life."

"One who inherits my legacy, do not die with regrets as I did. Since fate has granted you my inheritance, I hope you will protect my Dao Sect to some extent."

After Xu Zhiye finished speaking, he turned around. He had the bearing of an immortal, with an aura that declared, I alone am invincible.

Yet when Su Fang saw Xu Zhiye speak, his expression seemed somewhat desolate, as though he had recalled some past event.

Suddenly, the entire scene of heaven and earth began to change.

Before him, a young man danced with a sword. Every swing of his blade brought forth the explosive roar of thunder.

This person was Xu Zhiye in his youth.

It was a sword technique, swift as lightning and immensely powerful. Every move and stance brimmed with devastating force.

[Comprehended Thunder Sword Technique!]

"This is actually the Thunder Sword Technique!" Su Fang was greatly surprised. He had once heard of this sword technique.

This had once been the Dao Sect's strongest sect-protecting ultimate art. Its sword strikes were like thunder descending, flashes of lightning followed by peals of thunder. Reality was indeed as the rumors described.

Then the scene changed again. It became a room, where Su Fang saw the young Xu Zhiye reading a book. Su Fang hurried forward and began reading it as well.

"The Great Dao first took form as One. One gave birth to Two, Two gave birth to all things, and generation after generation continued without end..."

[Comprehended Dao Scripture Secret Canon!]

"Dao Scripture Secret Canon!" Su Fang was somewhat astonished. This cultivation technique was broad and profound, exceedingly powerful, and a rare secret-record treasure. Yet for ordinary people, comprehending it was truly difficult.

"The Dao Scripture Secret Canon focuses on circulation within the body, allowing the body to continue endlessly like the Great Dao of heaven and earth. This is practically a cultivation technique meant to forge the body into a world!"

After receiving the information about this cultivation technique in his mind, Su Fang rejoiced once more. "So that's how it is. The Dao Scripture Secret Canon is too profound and obscure for very many people to comprehend, so the Canonical Scripture of Changes was derived from it."

"The Dao Scripture Secret Canon is the Dao Sect's highest mental cultivation method, while the Canonical Scripture of Changes is merely a portion of it." Su Fang was extremely surprised. He had not expected to gain something even better this time.

This cultivation technique would bring him enormous benefits, because it emphasized foundations. The earlier one began cultivating from the basics, the firmer one's foundation would become, making one far stronger than many others.

"I never expected that having my cultivation crippled would instead help me cultivate this Dao Scripture Secret Canon even better." Su Fang was truly astonished.

Su Fang's consciousness returned to reality. This time, he still had not fully comprehended everything contained within the Creation Golden Core.

But Su Fang had plenty of time to comprehend it.

After awakening, Su Fang discovered that his shattered Qi Sea had been wrapped in a warm, gentle energy and was beginning to repair itself.

"As expected of a ninth-grade high-tier spiritual treasure, the Creation Golden Core can not only repair a damaged dantian, it even contains the purest spiritual qi left behind by its former owner."

From now on, he only needed to absorb the spiritual power within the Creation Golden Core to raise his strength. This was far faster than absorbing spirit stones. After all, the spiritual power within the Creation Golden Core had been transformed from the lifelong spiritual power of a mighty Peak Martial Saint.

Even though much spiritual power had been expended to condense this Creation Golden Core, the spiritual power contained within it was still enough for Su Fang to cultivate all the way to Martial King.

Su Fang calmed himself and began actively circulating the power within the Creation Golden Core to repair his damaged Qi Sea.

It was like mending clothes, using entirely new material to patch up the damaged parts and restore them to their original state.

But the Creation Golden Core was no ordinary object. It was a ninth-grade high-tier spiritual treasure, only one step short of a divine-grade spiritual treasure. Not only could it repair his dantian, it could also expand Su Fang's Qi Sea.

Su Fang discovered that his Qi Sea was not merely being repaired—it was being completely remade.

With the help of the Creation Golden Core, the entire world within his Qi Sea expanded.

Su Fang was utterly shocked.

For an ordinary person, the Qi Sea might be only as large as an egg. But Su Fang's Qi Sea, under the constant transformation of the Creation Golden Core, had already reached twice the size of an ordinary person's.

"The larger the Qi Sea, the more spiritual qi it needs to absorb, but my strength will certainly be several times greater than those in the same realm!" Su Fang was both shocked and helpless. The larger his Qi Sea became, the longer he would need to cultivate compared to others.

After a long while, the Creation Golden Core stopped expanding Su Fang's Qi Sea.

Su Fang found that his Qi Sea was probably four or five times the size of an ordinary person's. In other words, he would need to absorb five times as much spiritual qi as a normal person to fill it.

"My Qi Sea has become rather different."

Su Fang looked inward at his Qi Sea and found it vivid and lifelike, like a world overflowing with vitality.

This greatly surprised Su Fang. The Qi Sea he had opened before had been utterly lifeless, like a world of nothingness.

But his current Qi Sea radiated a soft, lustrous glow and brimmed with vitality.

"No wonder they say the Creation Golden Core possesses the power to defy heaven and change one's fate. Even a good-for-nothing can become heaven's favored child. The ancients truly did not deceive me." Su Fang felt greatly relieved.

Martial Soldiers were in the body-tempering stage, Martial Artists in the bone-refining stage, and Martial Generals in the meridian-nurturing stage. Upon reaching Martial Master, one absorbed spiritual qi and opened the meridians and acupoints throughout the body, allowing spiritual qi to form a circulation.

Upon reaching Martial Sect, one formally used spiritual qi to open a Qi Sea.

Because Su Fang's Qi Sea had previously been crippled and his body no longer contained even a trace of spiritual qi, he could begin cultivating anew. The body that had once been tempered could undergo a second tempering, becoming countless times stronger than before.

This strength would grow along with the increase in his cultivation.

"Now is the time to rise again and cultivate!" Su Fang began cultivating anew.