The Heavenly Cripple Divine Skill was also called the Heavenly Cripple Foot, because almost all its moves were leg techniques.
The reason this divine skill had nearly been lost was that its side effects were too severe.
Practicing it required reversing the meridians!
That alone kept many people from daring to touch it.
Everyone who practiced martial arts knew that reversing the meridians made true qi stronger, but also brought excruciating pain.
It also damaged one's foundations, and in severe cases, could strip someone of all their martial arts.
In a desperate fight, it would amount to a move or two at most. Nobody would care if they could drag someone down with them before dying.
But having to do this during ordinary practice meant suffering every day, enduring torment at every moment, and potentially crippling oneself with the slightest carelessness. Who could bear that?
Of those who practiced self-mutilating divine skills, whose temperament had not changed drastically?
"Huh? What this cultivation method absorbs isn't the usual heaven and earth essence, but negative forces harmful to the human body."
"Killing qi, baleful qi, poisonous qi, miasma, demonic qi, death qi, evil qi... fighting poison with poison, treating evil with evil, and thereby purging impurities and impure true qi from the body."
"And this boundless pain can temper the primordial spirit too. This is a cultivation method that comprehensively tempers essence, qi, and spirit. It bears some similarities to the Wedding Dress Divine Skill, but its tempering effects seem even stronger, and its side effects greater!"
"System, reverse the flaws of this Heavenly Cripple Divine Skill for me."
``` [Heavenly Cripple Divine Skill. Flaws: extreme pain during cultivation, susceptibility to drastic changes in temperament, unpredictable moods, and qi deviation.]
[After reversal: cultivation will feel incomparably comfortable, with better control over emotions,