18 Starting on body cultivation (1/2)

Bai Yun woke up after what felt like ages. His head felt like someone had used it for hitting practice. The only place on his body that didn't hurt was his right leg.

He looked around him. He seemed to be in a burrow. It was large enough for him to sit here comfortably. Based on the few hairs that he could see, it seemed to be created by a rodent type beast. And a large one at that. But seeing that the hairs seem to be quite old, as well as the state of the burrow, it seemed as if it hasn't been here in a while. It was most likely already dead for a long time. Otherwise Bai Yun would be dead by now.

Bai Yun knew that he had to rest for a while and heal up. He decided to use this burrow as a base until he healed up, and killed the entire moron group. The moron group was not very strong, with only three people in the group being worthy of mention. They were Bai Shan, the spy, and the guy with the cultivation at the fourth qi condesnataion stage. He knew that if he was at his peak, he could easily deal with them. It was only due to the grey rock python that he was in such a state.

The moron group could clearly see that he was severely injured. If the moron king had any brains, he would definitely send someone to hide and keep watch on the entrance to the weed valley, while they would keep looking. There was no way they would tell what happened to anyone. It would only tarnish their reputation, if they couldn't even defeat a cripple who was severely hurt to boot. On top of that it would only bring trouble to them. So they would definitely hide what they were doing from everyone. So he had to kill them all soon, before one of those morons told the truth to anyone else, and he would be suspected of their death.

But based on his current state, he could definitely not kill the moron king. So he had to raise his cultivation, and also heal himself. Thankfully he had the body fruit. Based on the energy of the body fruit, It would be possible to place three patterns, for someone who had not even started on the body tempering path. But Bai Yun knew that the energy would only be enough for two patterns inUndying Body.

Bai Yun removed the bandage that was covering him, as well his shirt. Anyone who saw him would definitely be terrified. All of his body was in different colors due to his injuries. He took out the body fruit.

The first nine mysterious patterns of the Undying Body were to cover as much of the body as possible. The first four covered his limbs, the fifth his head, and the final four covered his back and chest. But there was no order in the way the patterns had to be placed. It was only that the final pattern had to be placed last.

Bai Yun decided to start with one pattern each in his arm and leg. He needed the strength boost provided by the pattern to kill Bai Shan, so placing one on his left arm was necessary. But since his right arm was hurt, placing one there would not be of much use in the short term. Thus he needed to place one in his leg to increase maximum efficiency and speed. Bai Yun chose to start with his right leg first, as his left ankle was still hurt.

Bai Yun quickly ate the body fruit. As its energy filled his body, he quickly split it into two. After carefully considering the energy required, he took a little bit of energy from the two blobs out. Based on his calculations the energy he had was slightly larger than what was needed for two mysterious patterns. He send the leftover energy into his left hand, ,so that it could help in healing. He felt the arm becoming slightly stronger, while also being slightly healed. Even though it was almost imperceptible, since every little part counted, he did it anyway.

Bai Yun controlled the smaller of the two blobs of energy, while locking up the larger one tightly with his god sense. During the laying procedure for the mysterious patterns, all the attention must be placed on it. If he did so some of the energy of the body fruit would definitely be leaked during the process for someone without god sense. This was enough to show how much more demanding the Undying Body was. The power in the body fruit was enough to make three patterns for any other technique even with energy leakage, but was only barely enough for two if no leakage occurred in the Undying Body.

While wondering if the body fruit was the most powerful one in the valley, Bai Yun started on the mysterious patterns. After all the energy inside this fruit was much larger than what was said in the guide, and also the clearing around the mutant weed was quite large. No wonder even an animal like the grey rock python was lying in wait around it.

Bai Yun started in his fingers and started to work his way up. The first pattern went up from the tips of his fingers to just a few inches short of the shoulder. The most important thing in skin sewing was controlling the energy. In skin sewing, one had to control the energy into a thin thread, and the tip of it as a pin, and use it to slowly leave marks across the skin. As one laid the mysterious patterns one had to leave some gap between the threads of energy. This was because during skin sewing, one had to start from one end of the mysterious pattern, and work your way to the other end, then go back from that point to the starting and the pin will finally pierce the point where the sewing started and finish the pattern.

This entire process had to be done in one sitting, and if interrupted, then it could mean that one would not be able to lay another pattern there, and would also lose one pattern in the skin.

Thus control was very important. The thread of energy had to be exactly the same size from the start to finish, and the distance between each thread of energy also had to be exactly of this width. For many people this would be extremely difficult. Not only was this extremely difficult, such precision as nearly impossible. Even in his past life he had some tiny gaps in his patterns. But these were almost impossible to notice, and did not hinder his further path unlike gap between patterns.

But for the current Bai Yun, who had god sense, the experience of a god as well as three soul tendrils of Infinitude Heavenly thought, this was simplicity in itself. The threads he weaved were extremely fine, but terrifyingly tense. He used his god sense to direct his soul, and in just under an hour he was done.

The energy only had a single loop to go around before it reached the starting point and completed the pattern. He had a little bit of energy remaining, as he had overestimated the energy he would need by a bit. This much concentration was a bit taxing on Bai Yun and he his persistent headache had become much worse by now.

The moment he finished Bai Yun gave a sigh and withdrew his soul back, intending to take a short rest before he started on the second soul tendril.

Suddenly a startling pain assaulted his soul. Immediately his eyes followed suit. It felt as if someone was gouging out his eyes and burning them at the same time. This was the greatest pain he had felt in his current life, but Bai Yun did not scream, as there were still people looking for him outside. He silently clenched his fist and curled up until he trembled.