94 Body and soul cultivation. (2/2)
This cultivation manual was written by another person that Li Yang had never heard about before, someone known as Fiend King Xue Ying. Li Yang did the same as he did with the Bloody Shura technique, carefully reading every word and making sure that he memorized the entire thing.
This body cultivation technique also used the standard Qi cultivation as a blueprint, so it wasn't too hard to understand. The way one cultivated it was by fusing together multiple different laws using the complex principle of the cultivation technique, using the fused mass of laws to form a rune, a Monarch Rune, that one would then fuse into their body.
To fuse together the various laws, one had to designate their strongest law as the core of the rune, fusing the other laws into this core and using it to stabilize the fused mass of laws. For Li Yang, the core of the rune would obviously be his law of destruction. Not only was it one of the strongest laws in existence, its special property was to swallow up all creation and turn it into a single thing, nothingness. As long as he made sure to control it properly and prevented it from fully swallowing up the other laws he used to form the Monarch Rune, there was no better law to use as the core.
Cultivators of this Myriad Monarch technique couldn't just fuse the Monarch Runes into their body as they pleased, they had to follow a certain pattern. First, they had to fuse Monarch Runes into their bone marrow, replacing all their bone marrow with such Monarch Runes. They could then do the same to their bones, then their blood and flesh, and then finally their organs and outer parts of their body, things like hair, nails, and skin.
Once their entire body had become Monarch Runes, they could enter the final three stages of body cultivation, which were very similar to the last three stages of soul and Qi cultivation. Just like the Bloody Shura technique, this book also had a detailed list of all the standard body cultivation stages.
The first stage of body cultivation was called the Core Forging realm and it required a person to strengthen their bones using Qi as well as their laws, engraving their bones with their laws. Once a person's entire skeleton was engraved with runes signifying their laws, they would enter the next cultivation realm, the Heart Rune realm.
The Heart Rune realm was much the same as the Core Forging realm, it required one to carve all their organs with their laws, forming runes that would cover all their organs. These runes would connect with the runes carved on the cultivator's bones, the combined might causing the runes to resonate with the heavens and starting to draw down their might. This process will create a type of energy unique to body cultivators, Dark Star Essence, the body cultivation equivalent of Qi. Dark Star Essence is as heavy and strong as the core of a star, containing tremendous might and vitality. It's not as versatile as Qi, but it contains far more power and is perfectly suited for body strengthening and physical attacks. The tremendous amount of vitality it contains also allows a cultivator's body to quickly regenerate itself.
Once a cultivator had engraved all their organs with their runes, they would enter the next cultivation realm, the Star Blood realm. In this realm, a cultivator would have to use their laws and their Dark Star Essence to engrave their runes directly into their veins and onto their blood, connecting these runes with the already carved runes on their bones and organs, drawing down even more of the heavens might.
The next step was the Primordial Body realm, and it required a cultivator to carve the runes into their flesh and the remaining parts of their body, covering every inch of their being in the runes that signified their laws. With all the runes gathering together, they would call down a vast amount of the heavens might and use this energy to further evolve and strengthen the body, entering the next cultivation realm.
This realm was called the Heaven Imitating Body realm, and just like the soul cultivation realm with the same name, it required the cultivator to hollow out their own body and form a pseudo-heaven within the hollowed out body. Once every inch of their insides had become a pseudo-heaven, the cultivator could enter the next cultivation realm, the Heaven's Body realm.
This realm required a person to disintegrate the remains of their body, fusing their laws and their disintegrated body into the pseudo-heaven they had created, turning it into a true heaven that was unique to them. And just like with Qi and soul cultivation, once your heaven had become completely real, you would enter the final body cultivation realm.
This realm was called the Star Empyrean realm and it required the same as the other final cultivation stages, turning the heaven you had created into a new universe that could give birth to living and sentient beings from which you could draw strength. At this point, each of your actions would bring with them the might of an entire universe, and you would reign supreme.
Li Yang put down the book and let out another light breath, putting away the cultivation manual and bringing out his jug of wine. He was both awed and amazed at these two cultivation manuals he had just read, at the description they gave of the various cultivation realms. How long had it taken for these cultivation systems to be created? How had people learned to turn their own souls and bodies into new universes? Who had even come up with such grandiose ideas?
Li Yang knew that he himself was not smart or creative enough to come up with a completely new cultivation path, so he had great respect for whoever it was that came up with these new paths. He took a few more swigs of the fruity wine, savoring the taste for a few minutes as he finished up the remainder of the wine within the jug. Once the jug was empty, Li Yang stored the jug and the Myriad Monarch technique into his interspatial ring, closing his eyes again.
He couldn't cultivate the Bloody Shura technique since he didn't have any fresh corpses he could use to cultivate it, but he could cultivate the Myriad Monarch technique as well as focusing on his normal Qi cultivation. The test to become an inner disciple was only a few months away, and Li Yang was determined to pass the test and receive the rewards for becoming an inner disciple.
The competition where he would meet up with Fang Ying again was only a year away, so he had to gather up as many resources as he could so that he could increase his strength as much as he could. With this thought in mind, Li Yang ignored the outside world and immersed himself in his cultivation, focusing on body and Qi cultivation for now.