Chapter 10

After Gu Fei dismembered the Black Water Mystic Snake, he dug out a black pearl the size of an egg from the snake's belly. This pearl was the demon core of the Black Water Mystic Snake.

The demon core was pitch black and shiny, with a massive surge of demonic power inside. This demonic power made Gu Fei tremble with fear, as if he were holding a celestial thunderbolt that could explode at any moment.

This was because Gu Fei could sense the terrifying black gas that the Black Water Mystic Snake had spewed, which could corrode everything. If this demon core were to explode, its power would be no less than that of a celestial thunderbolt, and might even be more powerful.

"This thing is a treasure!" Gu Fei looked at the demon core in his hand, which emitted a dull black light, and smiled. With this demon core, he had a chance to save his life.

If he were to see someone he didn't like, he could unleash the demonic power within the demon core and throw it. Hehe, that person would likely be reduced to ashes.

The Black Water Mystic Snake, which was still in its juvenile stage, seemed to have died unjustly. This was also due to Gu Fei's luck. He had encountered an indestructible body in this cave, and in the hands of the indestructible body was a yin-yang fish pendant. This yin-yang fish pendant had the ability to gather the essence of heaven and earth.

Thus, Gu Fei broke through at this critical moment, with the help of the yin-yang fish pendant.

With all his meridians unblocked and the five qi energies derived, Gu Fei could perform some simple ancient combat techniques. However, even the simplest ancient combat techniques were only superficial when performed by Gu Fei.

"If I could truly unleash the power of the ancient combat techniques, I could crush the head of an adult Black Water Mystic Snake in one step, rather than just increasing my speed as it does now."

The combat technique of stepping across the eight desolations contained profound martial principles. If Gu Fei had enough strength, he might truly be able to unleash the terrifying power of crushing the primordial earth with one step.

Standing beside the corpse of the Black Water Mystic Snake, Gu Fei held a broken sword in his right hand, which had not been stained with any blood, and the demon core of the Black Water Mystic Snake in his left hand. He muttered to himself.

The ancient combat technique's footwork only greatly increased his speed, and he could not unleash any of the true martial principles. However, with the half-broken ancient sword in his hand, he managed to kill this fierce Black Water Mystic Snake.

To truly unleash the terrifying power of the ancient combat techniques, he needed to break through to the Transcendent Realm, where his flesh would undergo a transformation, unleashing even greater physical potential.

However, since the ancestor of Gu Fei's lineage obtained this ancient body cultivation secret scroll, no one in the Great Profound Sect had truly broken through their own constraints with body cultivation techniques and reached the Transcendent Realm.

Gu Fei's great-grandfathers, at the end of their lives, had only managed to cultivate the ancient body cultivation technique to the Ninth Heaven of Awakening, and could not advance further.

There were numerous cultivation systems in the world, and the entry-level cultivation techniques of the Awakening Realm were as numerous as cattle in the major sects. In a major sect like the Great Profound Sect, the cultivation techniques of the Awakening Realm were basic skills that everyone could practice.

Even the cultivation classics of the Transcendent Realm were not few. It was said that the Great Profound Sect's mountain-stabilizing secret classic, "The Great Profound True Interpretation," was a supreme classic that could cultivate one to the semi-divine realm.

Thus, the ancient body cultivation technique of Gu Fei's lineage became a chicken rib technique—unwilling to discard but useless. Over time, it was referred to as a garbage technique by the sect members.

Was this ancient body cultivation technique really a garbage technique? No one knew.

After killing the Black Water Mystic Snake, Gu Fei did not rush to leave. He needed to recover his strength and explore the way out at his peak state.

Gu Fei drank a few mouthfuls of snake blood, which was a great tonic. He ate a piece of raw snake meat, then sat cross-legged on the ground and closed his eyes to practice.

To be honest, the meat of the Black Water Mystic Snake was not easy to eat. It was like chewing on wood and had a strong, pungent smell. If he hadn't gone without food for several hours, Gu Fei would not have wanted to eat such a difficult thing.

However, after meditating for less than half an hour, the essence of heaven and earth in the cave began to gather around Gu Fei like a tide. Points of light swirled around him.

The yin-yang fish pendant on his chest transformed into a Taiji diagram, which slowly lit up. Streams of yin-yang energy began to emanate from the diagram.

The Taiji diagram on Gu Fei's chest seemed to come to life, with yin and yang energies surging out and forming a millstone-sized Taiji diagram above his head.

As soon as the Taiji diagram appeared, the essence of heaven and earth from all directions rushed towards it, then flowed into Gu Fei's body through the Taiji diagram.

"Hmm?" Soon, Gu Fei noticed the unusual changes inside and outside his body. He realized that the essence of heaven and earth, which usually took five hours to gather, had already reached that level in less than half an hour.

This meant that with the help of the Taiji diagram, Gu Fei's cultivation speed was more than ten times faster than usual. Ten times faster, Gu Fei felt his heart tremble at the thought.

Gu Fei practiced the qi cultivation technique, drawing in the essence of heaven and earth. A hazy light enveloped him. Gradually, the small stream of the five elements' essence in his dantian began to form a funnel-like small vortex.

The essence of heaven and earth gathered into the vortex, was refined, and integrated into his body's original five elements' essence. The five elements' essence grew slowly and irreversibly.

Using the original five elements' essence as a guide, refining the essence of heaven and earth into the body's original five elements' essence was a very slow process. Ten thousand units of the essence of heaven and earth were not enough to refine one unit of the original five elements' essence. The slow growth of the five elements' essence in Gu Fei's body was evident.

However, with ten times the cultivation speed, the growth of the original five elements' essence was ten times faster. The five elements' essence generated in the dantian spread through the meridians to the flesh, blood, and bones, causing his body to undergo a slow transformation.

The ancient body cultivation technique used a thread of the five elements' essence generated by the body's flesh and blood as a guide to form a vortex in the dantian, which absorbed the essence of heaven and earth, refined it, and transformed it into the body's original power to strengthen itself.

The Taiji diagram slowly rotated above Gu Fei's head, and there was no sound in the cave. As time passed, the essence of heaven and earth around Gu Fei became increasingly dense, and visible streams of spiritual light entered his body.

A subtle power fluctuation emanated from Gu Fei's body, and the Sixth Heaven of Awakening was firmly established. The five elements' essence began to refine the tendons and bones.

Gu Fei's body was enveloped in a faint five-colored light, and he was forging a body of steel and iron.

Just like a cultivator refining a magical treasure, the difference was that a cultivator refined external objects into powerful magical treasures.

But Gu Fei was refining his own body into a treasure body comparable to a magical treasure.

The human body is a treasure trove. The deeper one cultivates the body, the greater the physical strength that can be unleashed. Even challenging a cultivator's magical treasure is not an impossible task.