Swordlight Over the Great Wilderness
Chapter 53

Attacking the Heart

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Useless in life, a god after death? Those words stunned Ding Songyan.

Martial arts like that actually existed?

This wasn't even cultivating for the next life-it was cultivating for after death!

Ding Songyan also understood why Brother Youyang always said, "Life in this world is bitter and short. Why not indulge a little?"

His martial arts dictated that once he cultivated to a certain level, he had to die. Naturally, while alive, he had to cast off restraint and surrender to pleasure, lest his journey through this world go to waste.

Ding Songyan also understood why the Celestial Maiden Sect had sent a Martial Grandmaster, while the True Spirit Sect had not: no danger? Everyone went home happy. Danger? Ren Youyang would be stronger dead!

Su Qingli watched Ren Youyang face off against Ma Hanjiang without blinking, her little mouth chattering nonstop:

"Actually, it isn't quite as exaggerated as the Useless Divine Art itself claims. It all stems from its two traits, 'Summoning gods and commanding ghosts' and 'Deathless Spirit.' Well, it is still amazing. The first death can directly raise you by an entire major realm and grant you powerful abilities.

"In the past, many Perfected Persons considered raising practitioners of the Useless Divine Art to the Spirit Platform Realm, to see whether their deaths could break through the greatest restriction imposed by the Severance of Heaven and Earth and allow them to enter the Profound Realm, or even the Myriad Mysteries Realm. Unfortunately, they never succeeded. At most, practitioners of the Useless Divine Art can stay alive until the Celestial-Human Realm, after which they die for all sorts of reasons."

'Summoning gods and commanding ghosts,' 'Deathless Spirit'? I think I saw those in the Secret Classic of Mountains and Seas... Ding Songyan asked in astonishment:

"The first death?

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