Cultivating the Five-Colored Palm

Besides these relatively Advanced pills, there were also ordinary medicines such as wound-healing salves.

"This is actually restricted knowledge too. Only after mastering all these pills can the next restriction be unlocked!"

Zhou Liang recalled the information in his mind and thought thoughtfully.

This body of knowledge concerning alchemy and pill formulas was divided into three levels: the Martial World, the Phantom Spirit World, and the Immortal Spirit World. As expected, they corresponded to the medicines of those three worlds.

The formulas he had just obtained were clearly all from martial arts novels, especially the Great Rejuvenation Pill and Lesser Rejuvenation Pill, which were famous medicines of Shaolin Temple.

Moreover, besides the formulas, the methods for cultivating medicinal herbs and strange beasts were steeped in the flavor of the Martial World.

Especially the cultivation method for a palm technique recorded within: the Five-Colored Palm.

This palm technique had two cultivation methods. The first was called the Five-Stone Palm, using five highly poisonous stones to forge a hard poison palm. Once mastered, it would be indestructible and able to release its power independently and directly. It specialized in breaking armor and piercing bodies, making it extremely effective against people with strong, tough physiques.

The five stones were stone gall, cinnabar, realgar, lodestone, and alum.

The other method was the Five-Poison Palm. It required collecting five venomous insects to forge a poison palm of immense strength. This poison was refined from the five poisons; it could bore into the heart and body, draw out bones and suck marrow, then grow and spread.

Because of these characteristics, it was particularly effective against opponents with strong recovery abilities. Once poisoned, the greater their vitality and recovery power, the fiercer the poison would become.

The five insects were scorpions, snakes, bees, gadflies, and centipedes.

Zhou Liang slowly narrowed his eyes, rose to his feet, and went to gather the things he needed.

Some time later, Zhou Liang sat busily in front of an alchemy bench in a refining room.

Looking at the powders ground from stone gall, cinnabar, realgar, lodestone, and alum before him, he slowly let out a breath.

He took out five small cauldrons, placed them in five directions, added the powders, and began heating them with charcoal.

As the small cauldrons heated up, a strange fragrance drifted out, immediately making Zhou Liang feel slightly dizzy.

However, the sensation came quickly and faded just as quickly. Zhou Liang's physique soon adapted to it.

Then, watching the five-colored smoke slowly rise, Zhou Liang raised his left hand, and an icy blue color immediately surged forth.

Watching the five-colored Poison Smoke begin to gather together, Zhou Liang extended his icy blue left hand before the five small cauldrons.

Then, following the recorded method of circulating Soul Power, he slowly circulated it through his left hand.

At once, a strange pulling force emerged, and the mixed five-colored Poison Smoke drifted toward his icy blue left hand.

"Hiss!"

Zhou Liang sucked in a sharp breath. The pain was like icy steel needles piercing his fingers, making his hand tremble.

The poison smoke connected to his five fingers trembled along with them.

As the poison smoke was continuously absorbed into his five fingers, the pain grew increasingly intense.

But at that moment, the Blue Ice Poison in his left hand finally reacted.

It instantly began absorbing the Five-Stone Poison flowing into his fingers, and a miraculous change began to occur.

Starting from his fingers, the skin that had originally only been icy blue began turning translucent, with blue light flickering across it.

Once it reached a certain degree of transparency, the flesh and blood beneath were directly exposed. Slowly wriggling muscle fibers, flowing blood, and every blood vessel were all laid bare.

Yet in no more than a second, those scarlet things began to transform, turning icy blue.

Of course, the blood remained its original color, so his left hand now looked as though red blood were flowing within a translucent blue sapphire.

When the last trace of Five-Stone Poison was absorbed, one method of cultivating the Five-Colored Palm was complete.

Sweat beaded on Zhou Liang's forehead, and his expression relaxed. Looking at his crystal-clear left hand, as beautiful as fine jade, he nodded in satisfaction.

"As expected of a demonic cultivation technique. It can actually be mastered in one go. As long as you don't die, you can cultivate it easily, but it has almost no potential for improvement!" Zhou Liang said regretfully.

"This was originally a technique meant to prevent the hands from mutating after suffering accumulated corrosion during the refining and handling of medicine!" Zhou Liang shook his head.

"However, after combining with the Blue Ice Poison, this Five-Colored Palm is completely different, and its potential for improvement cannot be compared to before!" After thinking this through, Zhou Liang took out a cauldron the size of a human head.

He placed it between the five small cauldrons, then took out five boxes from the side.

These contained the five venomous insects he had bought at the market, and they had been specially raised.

"That street really was full of hidden experts. I never expected there to be a Soul Master who specialized in raising venomous insects!" Zhou Liang recalled the scene of the transaction and said in surprise.

Zhou Liang took out one medicinal ingredient after another and began processing them, grinding, steaming, boiling, and cooking them through one procedure after another.

Afterward, two small jars the size of palms and a small basin of strangely colored poisonous water appeared before the cauldron.

Zhou Liang slowly exhaled, opened the first small jar, and inserted a cotton swab as thick as a finger.

After it had soaked up the oil inside, he took it out and evenly applied it over his right hand.

The earthy yellow grease left a bright yellow color behind after being brushed over his palm.

However, the grease was quickly absorbed by his palm, and the yellow gradually turned transparent before finally disappearing.

After a while, the entire jar of oil had been applied. Zhou Liang felt his right hand become slightly stiff.

He hurriedly opened the second small jar, coated the cotton swab with the white paste inside, and applied it to his right hand again.

He applied it again and again, and it was slowly absorbed. By the end, his stiff right hand had regained its flexibility.

Then Zhou Liang opened the front cover of the specially made cauldron and extended his right hand inside.

Once his palm was placed inside, he activated the mechanism. The opening of the cauldron gradually closed, finally locking around his wrist and sealing the space shut.

His left hand turned icy blue, every finger translucent, looking like a piece of beautiful jade.

He opened the box containing the first venomous insect, grabbed the scorpion inside in one motion, and brought it to one of the five specially designed openings above the cauldron.

He dropped it inside and closed the lid.

After entering, the scorpion seemed to smell something. It hurriedly rushed in, saw the moving palm, immediately clamped its pincers around the thumb, and viciously drove the venomous stinger on its tail down.

Zhou Liang frowned in slight pain, but he did not stop what he was doing.

One after another, the five venomous insects were placed inside, each biting down on one finger.

The mixed venom of the five poisons caused the medicine within his palm to undergo a marvelous reaction.

The instant that marvelous reaction appeared, Zhou Liang hurriedly circulated his Soul Power through his right hand according to the Five-Colored Palm's method.