Indestructible Golden Body

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

The technique originated as an inheritance of the Vajra Gate. Bai Bufei identifies his family’s copy as the latter Mana-level portion of the Indestructible Golden Body, but explains that it is unusable in isolation because its preceding and subsequent sections were lost. 78

Jiang Yi had already cultivated related Vajra Gate-derived arts when he obtained the scripture fragments. Once the recovered portions are engraved into his knowledge, the Cauldron Origin Art, Nine Cauldrons Returning Origin Art, and Casting Cauldron Origin Aspect Golden Body merge into the Indestructible Golden Body. 81

Its core doctrine treats the Indestructible Golden Body as a furnace: other martial arts and cultivation methods are comprehended, refined, and added as fuel. Through this process, “all methods return to one,” allowing the practitioner to improve the technique, strengthen their Primeval Aspect Mana, and reverse an acquired physique into an innate one. 81

Abilities & Properties

Furnace of All Methods

The technique can assimilate compatible cultivation methods and martial arts, incorporating their principles into its own body-forging and mana chapters.

• Azure Pine Immortality Technique improves its absorption of the essence of heaven and earth. 81
• Blazing Fire Crimson Sun Technique allows it to evolve Blazing Flames Burning Heaven and True Blazing Sun Fire. 86
• Wind Cloud Art grants wind-and-cloud manifestations and the ability to control heavenly might. 87
• Glazed Treasure Bottle Wonderful Method, Azure Fire Genesis Art, Boundless Canghai Technique, and other ultimate arts further refine its foundation. 91 92 99
• Indestructible Vajra Skill, Myriad Sword Heart Art, and Immovable Wisdom King Art respectively drive its later Vajra, Sword Body, and defensive transformations. 121 138 145

Physical Transformation

At completion of its Mana chapter, the technique nourishes flesh, blood, tendons, and bones to their limit, remaking the practitioner into an Innate Golden Body. 99

• The Acquired Golden Body naturally emits golden light; Jiang Yi describes every muscle, bone, and drop of blood as though forged from precious gold. 67
• The Innate Golden Body can be awakened to release ancient, invincible physical power. Jiang Yi blocks a True King’s King’s Weapon with his bare hand and subsequently shatters it. 105
• The Vajra Body is described as being “like Vajra,” firm as precious gold, with Blood Essence capable of erupting with Dragon-Elephant divine power. 121
• The Adamantine Sword Body combines indestructible physical strength with an overwhelming sword intent that makes nearby swords tremble. 138

Primeval Aspect Mana and Phenomena

The perfected Mana chapter cultivates Primeval Aspect Mana capable of evolving numerous martial phenomena. 99

• A golden cauldron can manifest as the central image of the technique, representing its suppressive and stabilizing power. 99
• Integrated artistic conceptions can manifest as blazing flames, winds and clouds, boundless seas, a profound turtle, a roaming dragon, and a treasure bottle that inhales the essence of heaven and earth. 99
• Azure Fire Genesis adds a life-nurturing flame whose principle is “Azure fire rises, all things are born.” 92

Limitations

• The Bai Family’s Mana-level fragment cannot be cultivated on its own because it is only a middle section of a larger lost inheritance. 78
• Even after its initial completion, Jiang Yi considers the technique’s Mana chapter crude and its overall method incomplete. 81
• The technique repeatedly reaches bottlenecks; at Mortal Transformation Third Layer, it cannot advance without incorporating further cultivation methods. 110
• At the Ninth Transformation of the Mortal Realm, Jiang Yi again concludes that new techniques must be integrated before the Indestructible Golden Body can carry him further. 139

Relationships

• Jiang Yi — Primary practitioner, refiner, and eventual transmitter of the technique; he turns an incomplete Vajra Gate inheritance into a method far exceeding its original fragments. 81 146
• Vajra Gate — Original sect associated with the Indestructible Golden Body and the Indestructible Vajra Skill. 78 120
• Hu Zhong — Gives Jiang Yi the incomplete Casting Cauldron Origin Aspect Golden Body chapter. 55
• Bai Bufei — Confirms that the Bai Family holds the Mana-level latter half of the scripture and lends Jiang Yi access to it. 78
• Nangong Yao — Supplies the Indestructible Vajra Skill, whose integration allows the technique to reach True-grade middle rank and evolve the Vajra Body. 120 121
• Unnamed frail youth — Receives Jiang Yi’s Indestructible Golden Body legacy as a beam of golden light and successfully endures its transmission. 146

Legacy

Jiang Yi eventually condenses the full contents of his Indestructible Golden Body cultivation method into a grain-sized golden light and passes it to a frail, uncultivated youth scavenging within the ruins of Golden Great City. The youth recognizes it as a supreme martial art capable of reaching the peak of the True King realm. 146

Jiang Yi also leaves behind a fist engraving containing the technique’s true meaning. The imprint incorporates his Spiritual Sense and the artistic conceptions of the cultivation methods he practiced, centering on the principle of being unbreakable like a tripod anchoring the four directions. 161