Skin like bronze, flesh like crystal, blood like gold, sinews like dragons, bones like iron!
This was the Immortal Physique Jian Shang had painstakingly come to understand, akin to the legendary Immortal Golden Body with its copper skin and iron bones.
The Innate Illusory God Record was a special supreme earth grade cultivation technique, primarily devoted to fusion and transformation. It brought its practitioner into greater harmony with heaven, earth, and the various Great Daos, ultimately allowing him to merge with heaven and earth and transform into all things-a path pointing straight toward the Great Dao. By refining a target's blood essence, the practitioner could make his aura, bones, appearance, and every other aspect identical to the target's, as though born that way. Even gods could be deceived. At the first stage, he could transform into something with one-tenth of his own strength; at the second, one-fifth; at the third, one-half; at the fourth, equal strength; at the fifth, twice his strength, then four times, eight times, ten times, a hundred times.
The Cosmic Illusory God Record was a heaven grade cultivation technique. Of all things beneath the heavens, nothing lay beyond its transformations or fusion. It was the advanced form of the Innate Illusory God Record.
Both great manuals bore the word "illusory," and both had shaken past and present through their illusions.
Yet "illusion" was merely the means, not the foundation. The foundation of the Cosmic Illusory God Record was fusion and transformation, a method pointing straight toward the Great Dao, not inferior arts of falsehood such as illusory transformations or tricks of the eye. The Cosmic Illusory God Record was precisely what Jian Shang relied upon in his attempt to refine the Immortal Physique!
In truth, no heaven grade cultivation technique was that simple. What most people