Chapter 4

"Shenlun, it is the wheel of divine power. One Shenlun carries all your previous learning and your martial arts insights, transforming them into your first divine power on the Shenlun!"

Jiang Xue explained earnestly, "Your current cultivation realm is still quite far from breaking through to the Shenlun realm and cultivating your first divine power. Once you cultivate the Shenlun, you will come into contact with divine powers, and then you will naturally understand more. Zichuan, you have already been drained of forty percent of your yang energy by me today, so it's best to focus on your cultivation."

Jiang Nan's heart tightened. He and Jiang Xue had an agreement: she would guide his cultivation, and he would provide her with forty percent of his yang energy daily for her to absorb and restore her divine soul.

"Make your body a prison, and your eyes, ears, mouth, nose, tongue, and mind the prison gates. Lock the prison gates, transform your body into hell, and let your true qi be the demonic seed!"

With a thought, Jiang Nan activated the Demon Prison Profound Fetus Scripture, closing his five senses—eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and tongue. He seemed to see but not see, to hear but not hear. He had already achieved some success with the Jiang Yue Breaking Wave Technique, cultivating the four realms of skin, flesh, sinew, and bone. Closing all the acupoints in his body was not difficult; with a single thought, he could close all 108,000 pores in his body, preventing any true qi or primordial qi from leaking out!

Finally, he even closed his consciousness, entering a state of neither thinking nor not thinking, a state of mind he had never experienced before.

Seeing this, Jiang Xue nodded repeatedly, thinking, "My younger brother's talent is not bad, and his insight is excellent. It's a pity I don't know much about human cultivation techniques; otherwise, I could have cultivated a powerful expert..."

Unconsciously, the sun rose, and the morning light from the east shone on the Yangchuan River, bringing warmth to the early winter morning.

This place was rarely visited, and few people would come here at this time.

As the Demon Prison Profound Fetus Scripture ran, Jiang Nan's body, with its 108,000 pores closed, became like a sealed hell, with his true qi acting like hellish demonic energy, extremely domineering.

In his dantian, numerous true qi condensed into a black bell, which was the demonic seed.

The black bell, like a seed, floated in the center of his dantian, only the size of a mustard seed, continuously absorbing threads of true qi, emitting a clear ringing sound that only Jiang Nan could hear.

This demonic seed, shaped like an inverted black bell, was small and exquisite, continuously ringing. Jiang Nan's true qi flowed into the demonic seed, oscillating inside the bell, gradually transforming into black mist, which then completely disappeared.

He seemed to have become a bottomless pit, absorbing the solar primordial qi from the sunlight that shone on his body!

"Making the body a prison, only allowing entry and no exit, the Demon Prison Profound Fetus Scripture is indeed domineering!"

Jiang Xue was also slightly surprised by this scene. Although she possessed the incomplete version of the Demon Prison Profound Fetus Scripture, she had never cultivated it. Seeing Jiang Nan's cultivation, she immediately understood the terrifying nature of this technique.

The scene before her was Jiang Nan activating the Demon Prison Profound Fetus Scripture, with his 108,000 pores acting as prison gates, absorbing the solar primordial qi into his body without allowing any essence to leak out!

Absorbing the solar primordial qi rapidly replenished Jiang Nan's yang energy, making his blood and qi increasingly vigorous, and even his true qi grew rapidly!

Thud, thud, thud, thud!

Sounds like bowstrings being pulled echoed from within Jiang Nan's body. His large tendons, like strings, tightened and snapped, capable of bursting with the power of a strong bow, releasing this force in an instant.

After the tendons vibrated, a deep rumbling sound came from within his body, as his 206 bones were brushed by true qi, emitting a faint hum!

"The realm of bone refinement..."

Jiang Xue's eyes showed surprise. In this short time, Jiang Nan had already transcended the realm of tendon refinement and entered the fourth realm of body refinement, the realm of bone refinement: "In such a short time, he has broken through to the fourth realm of bone refinement. Zichuan's talent is even better than I imagined..."

Jiang Nan used his body as a prison, with true qi nourishing his skin, flesh, and large tendons. As his true qi grew deeper, it penetrated deeper into his body, like a tide washing over his bones, flushing out all impurities. True qi nourished his bones, making them harder, forging a body of copper sinews and iron bones!

The realm of bone refinement is the foundation of the fifth realm, the bone membrane realm. The human body has 206 bones, all connected by bone membranes and muscles, forming a complete whole. To achieve the fifth realm of martial arts, one must thoroughly open all bone membranes, allowing true qi to flow freely through them!

Only by forging a body of copper sinews and iron bones can one withstand the powerful impact of true qi when opening the bone membranes. Otherwise, the violent true qi could shatter one's muscles and bones!

In many cultivation techniques, bone refinement involves infusing true qi into the bones to strengthen them, making them hard enough to withstand the violent impact. For example, the Jiang Yue Breaking Wave Technique involves true qi transforming into a great river, washing over the bones, with the moon rising in the river, illuminating the bones, thus achieving bone refinement.

Once the great river and the moon have washed over all the bones, it can be considered a minor achievement, which is already an extremely high-level technique!

The Demon Prison Profound Fetus Scripture, however, uses the body as hell, simultaneously refining all 206 bones, using hellish energy to refine the skin, flesh, tendons, and bones, achieving a balanced refinement, and cultivating at a speed several times faster than the Jiang Yue Breaking Wave Technique!

At this rate, Jiang Nan could break through the realm of bone refinement and enter the realm of membrane refinement in less than ten days!

When the sun was high in the sky, the solar primordial qi in the sunlight suddenly became extremely intense. Jiang Nan immediately felt his true qi almost instantly boil, his blood and qi surge, and his yang energy become extremely domineering, causing him to groan, his face turning blood red!

A light crackling sound came from within his body, as the intense solar primordial qi caused an excess of yang energy to accumulate, forcing open the 108,000 pores in his body, which had been transformed into prison gates!

His pores opened, and thin flames shot out, igniting his clothes, instantly turning him into a fiery figure!

"Zichuan, stop the cultivation technique immediately!"

Jiang Xue's face changed slightly. The white fox leaped forward, coming to Jiang Nan's front, and with a single breath, she absorbed all the flames shooting out of his 108,000 pores, and then absorbed much of the intense yang energy and heat from his body!

At the same time, Jiang Nan decisively stopped the Demon Prison Profound Fetus Scripture, and with a single breath, he expelled the overly expanded true qi from his body, which turned into a foot-long arrow of qi, shooting far away!

This arrow of qi was extremely hot, and as soon as it left his mouth, it burst into flames, shooting through a willow tree by the river, leaving a hole the size of an arm, and then burning out and disappearing in the air!

The willow tree was left with a hole as if it had been pierced by a strong bow!

Jiang Nan was still shaken, thinking how dangerous it had been. In that brief moment, he had almost been incinerated by the boiling yang energy and true qi in his body!

If Jiang Xue had not timely reminded him to stop the cultivation technique and absorbed his excess yang energy and heat, he would have been doomed!

Jiang Xue's eyes showed surprise, and she praised, "Truly the supreme cultivation technique of the demon sect, domineering and unparalleled! At this foundational stage of martial arts, a cultivation mishap can burn the practitioner to ashes. If one reaches the realms of divine power or the Dao platform, a mishap would be even more terrifying!"

Jiang Nan's face darkened. His fox sister actually had such dangerous thoughts, which was really irresponsible!

Concerned for his life, Jiang Nan asked cautiously, "Sister, the Demon Prison Profound Fetus Scripture is too domineering. Do you have any way to reduce the risk of a cultivation mishap?"

"Your body is too weak to withstand the intense solar primordial qi at midday. A cultivation mishap is normal. In the future, when cultivating this technique, stop immediately at midday. Wait until your body is strong enough to try extending the time."

Jiang Xue pondered for a moment and then smiled, "But sister has another method..."

Jiang Nan's heart stirred. The white fox smiled, her eyes forming two crescent moons, "When you have a cultivation mishap, I can absorb the excess yang energy and true qi from your body. This way, you won't die from the heat, and I can quickly restore my divine soul. Isn't this a win-win solution?"

Jiang Nan quickly rejected the idea. Playing with his life was never a win-win situation; a slight mistake could lead to his death or severe injury!

"That's too bad..." the fox demon sighed, looking regretful.

"Technique, technique, having a cultivation method requires a way to apply it, which is the techniques, divine powers, and application skills! Unfortunately, the Demon Prison Profound Fetus Scripture is incomplete, having the method but no application. It's like having a treasure mountain but being unable to take out any treasure."

Jiang Nan stopped cultivating the Demon Prison Profound Fetus Scripture and thought, "I wonder if the techniques I learned before can be activated by the Demon Prison Profound Fetus Scripture?"

"Primordial Yuan Opening Palm!"

His body suddenly moved, and he struck with a palm. The black bell in his dantian, formed by the demonic seed, suddenly rang, and the surface of the black bell revealed dense text, which was the essence of the Primordial Yuan Opening Palm, perfectly integrated.

Swoosh!

His palm, like a heavy axe, fiercely chopped down. Even before it landed, a deep mark appeared on the ground, as if an invisible axe had cut through it!

Jiang Nan was both surprised and delighted. He changed his palm to a fist, and his fist, like a hammer, struck out!

His fist hit the air, making a loud thud, like a drum being struck!

"Powerful, incredibly powerful!"

He stomped his foot, and the ground beneath him trembled, with small stones cracking and shattering!

"The Demon Prison Profound Fetus Scripture can activate the Primordial Yuan Opening Palm, making it five to six times more powerful than the original! I wonder how powerful it would be if it activated the Eighteen Styles of Jiang Yue?"

Jiang Nan immediately changed his technique, slowing down his movements. His hands, like guiding a great river, drew it out from the valley. The surface of the black bell in his dantian revealed images and dense text, which was the technique of the Jiang Yue Breaking Wave Technique, extremely mysterious.

This situation was as if the black bell had become the central hub of his true qi, able to change the flow of true qi and evolve other martial arts techniques.

A great river emerges from the deep valley!

Suddenly, a sound of waves came from between his hands, as if a great, invisible river had been drawn out from an intangible deep valley, with surging waves and powerful currents, significantly enhancing its power!

"Full moon hangs in the sky!"

He held his hands in a circle, as if embracing a full moon. True qi condensed between his hands, and a powerful force emerged, striking forward with a gust of wind, hitting the Yangchuan River!

The Yangchuan River was about seven to eight zhang wide, and the opposite bank was a forest. The force of Jiang Nan's strike crossed the river, and a tree on the opposite bank shook, with some leaves falling from its branches.

A gentle breeze blew, and wood dust danced in the air. The tree was left with a round hole, completely penetrated, as if it had been struck by a hidden force, though it was not visible from the outside!

Jiang Nan performed techniques like "Great River Rises with the Tide" and "Full Moon Illuminates the Great River," and their power was much stronger than expected, about two to three times more powerful than the original Jiang Yue Breaking Wave Technique!

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