Chapter Two Hundred and Twenty Four – Pu Yao’s Teaching (1/2)

Chapter Two Hundred and Twenty Four – Pu Yao’s Teaching

Pu Yao said it easily, but an abhinna was not so easily formed. After being modified by earth energy, Zuo Mo’s body could contain more earth energy. Zuo Mo spent all of his time absorbing earth energy. When the earth energy entered his body, it would turn into hundreds of thin streams that spread throughout every part of Zuo Mo’s body.

Zuo Mo felt his strength was very full, and the mountain peak diagram on his palms were becoming increasingly clear.

According to Pu Yao, his body cultivation could be considered to have finally crossed the threshold. As he absorbed earth energy, Zuo Mo savored the difference between body and sword cultivation. Compared to those complex and profound sword scriptures, body cultivation was much easier. He only needed to continuously guide the earth energy to every part of his body and continuously temper it. Body cultivation was a test of his patience more than anything else.

Zuo Mo guided the earth energy into the blood and bones, which previously had had earth energy drawn out from before by Pu Yao. After multiple rounds of tempering, Zuo Mo was very familiar with his body, and it did not require any effort. There was some earth energy that could not be absorbed and swam between his blood and flesh. He was not rushed. Tempering was a labor of time, and it could not be hurried. The blood, bone, flesh, and tendons of his body seemed to breathe. When the amount of earth energy they absorbed reached a certain level, they would become full.

Zuo Mo’s knees slightly bent, his two palms were covered in a dark blue light. He continuously used his two palms to hit his body. With each blow his body would lightly shudder as though he was struck by electricity, becoming numb and itchy.

Each blow would cause much of the earth energy to shatter into smaller dust-sized particles. Pia pia pia, Zuo Mo continued for two hours before he stopped. The earth energies that he had taken in today were all absorbed in.

He stood up. His body, rather than being tired, was in unspeakable ecstasy. He knew that as long as he persisted, his body would become even harder and stronger, becoming as difficult to damage as a talisman.

He suddenly seemed to like body cultivation. The offensive strength of body cultivation and dhyana xiu could not compare to sword xiu, but tempering the body bit by bit continuously built his confidence. Every pore in his body felt stronger every day, and continuously made him even hardier.

Many dhyana xiu would not use a talisman in their entire lifetime because they would use all their time on tempering their own bodies. Their bodies were not the least bit lacking compared to strong talismans. The bodies of dhyana xiu after their death were the best for corpse forging, but no one dared to do so. Xiuzhe who had dared to do so had all been killed without exception by dhyana xiu.

“Mo is the best at body cultivation. The [Vajra Profound Sutra] that you cultivate might be low level, but it isn’t bad to use when building your foundation,” Pu Yao said coldly. Whenever he mentioned something related to the gravestone, he never had a good tone. “From the core, humans are not suited to body cultivation.”

“Because we do not have mo matrixes?” Zuo Mo reacted quickly.

“Exactly. With the mo matrix, the efficiency of body cultivation is multiplied. As for body cultivation, ling power is not the best choice. Ling power is most skilled in transformations. The Dhyana bunch were all people who didn’t have any sword scriptures at the time, and had no choice but to mimic the mo in body cultivation, and only achieved half the effectiveness.”

Pu Yao was full of scorn in his words about the dhyana xiu. He continued icily, “Mo understand body cultivation, but there is a world of difference there. Those slightly better body cultivation mo arts all have strict inheritance rules. Hmph, hmph, the inheritance of yaomo is much stricter than xiuzhe.”

“How do yaomo inherit?” Zuo Mo was full of interest and asked in curiosity.

“The best inheritances in the mo jies are mostly in the hands of mo above the level of general. They are warlords, ruling over large numbers of lower level mo in their territories. In any of the mo jie, inheritances represent strength. In order to learn an inheritance, one has to continuously give their loyalty to their master. In the future, if you encounter a mo army, you have to be careful.”

“Why? Are they even stronger than the yao army?” Zuo Mo was slightly shocked. In his experience, the yao army he had seen that day was so strong that he didn’t even any thoughts of resisting.

“The yao army obeys commands as one, but in terms of obedience, no army can compare to the mo armies. The military laws of the mo armies are so strict that no one is above them. Any mo general will have hundreds of subordinates that are willing to die for him. Brave, not afraid of death, and fanatical obedience. As long as the mo general is not too dumb, any troop would have a headache when faced against them.”

“They aren’t afraid of death?” Zuo Mo didn’t understand. He found it hard to comprehend this kind of loyalty. It was not that he did not believe in this kind of loyalty, but he felt that this kind of loyalty would only appear on a few select people. If a whole troop was not afraid of death, then it was too scary!

“Because of mo skill inheritances. Any kind of high level mo skill inheritances will have its own unique intelligence awakening technique that can bestow thought. What you people might say is that mo are born from intelligence beasts. In reality, to be able to be called mo, there is one condition, that their intelligence has been awakened. Behind every mo is their clan. But to become mo, their intelligence must be awakened. Only beasts that have their intelligence awakened can cultivate mo skills. If they die, their clan would benefit, and will receive more opportunities to awaken the intelligences of more mo. These are the rules that any mo general in any mo jie would abide by.”

“Why don’t people awaken some more?” Zuo Mo asked.

“Awakening a mo intelligence comes at a price,” Pu Yao looked at Zuo Mo, and said, “There are those that are naturally born intelligent, but the number is very low. Those mo are very talented in cultivation.”

“But then, doesn’t it mean that they forever have to be subordinates?”