Chapter 662 - Cultivating Heart Secret Technique (1/2)

Chapter 662: Cultivating Heart Secret Technique

Translator: Radiant Translations Editor: Radiant Translations

Xue Ying was teleporting within the Mirage world as he traversed the Black Rain Eden. He soon arrived at a huge maelstrom formed from the black clouds in the sky, and this maelstrom was distorting even space itself. This was a passage leading to the Icy Snow Eden.

‘I only have one challenge from the Three Devil Palaces yet to complete, but it’s the hardest one.’ Xue Ying shot up into the sky and entered the maelstrom.

Icy Snow Eden was marked by a freezing wind blowing all throughout, complete with snow falling from the sky. Goose feather-like snow was piled up all around, forming a pure blanket of white snow.

Xue Ying had only just arrived, but he already noticed the bone-piercing temperature. Whenever one of the snowflakes landed on his body, it was immediately forced away by his luminous sun force.

Taking out the command token for the Three Devil Palaces, he began heading towards the location he was pointed.

…

Once he arrived, just like the first two times, a bubble appeared in the air to envelop him, and he was immediately teleported through the void at the location of the Cultivating Heart Palace.

Xue Ying appreciated the scene in front of him: he was in a region filled to the brim with snow, at the very center of which was a huge palace which was also covered in snow. There were three ancient words imprinted on the surface of the front door of this building—Cultivating, Heart, and Palace.

The interior of the palace hall showed no sign of the same snow found everywhere outside. Instead, many words were written all over the motley walls, making up the third and final fundamental secret technique, the Cultivating Heart Secret Technique.

“The Cultivating Heart Secret Technique,” an aged voice sounded.

Xue Ying turned over to see an old man. He was dressed in white robes, had white hair and a white beard old, and he seemed to have suddenly materialized within the hall. His beard stretched all the way to his chest. “Listen here, Destruction Legion kid: the Cultivating Heart Secret Technique is the hardest of the three fundamental secret techniques. From the time the Ancestor Devil created the Six Heavenly Wheel, leaving behind the Three Devil Palaces, and until now, not many people got the command token for the Three Devil Palaces within each cosmos epoch. The demands for the other two secret techniques might be high, but they can’t be considered exaggerated when compared to this Cultivating Heart Secret Technique. Many have succeeded in cultivating the previous two but remained forever stuck at this final technique.”

“Dissolving Blood and Eroding Bone are fine and all…”

“But the Cultivating Heart focuses on cultivating one’s True Deity Heart, your very soul. It is undoubtedly the hardest of the bunch.”

The old man looked at Xue Ying. “This is the most important trial set by the Ancestor Devil. It is only if you pass it that you can gain the inheritance of the Ancestor Devil.”

Xue Ying laughed. “Many thanks. You are much more polite than the other two.”

“Treasure spirits have their own wisdom, and some might even have feelings,” the white-haired old man concluded with these words, then walked to the side and sat down cross-legged with his eyes closed. He no longer paid Xue Ying any attention.

Xue Ying was startled momentarily as he gazed at the old man, but he quickly turned his attention towards the words written on the wall.

Very soon, he memorized the entire Cultivating Heart Secret Technique.

‘The Cultivating Heart Secret Technique has three boundaries?’ Xue Ying thought.

As long as his True Deity Heart could endure passing these three boundaries, he would have succeeded in cultivating the secret technique.

‘According to the intelligence reports I received from Teacher, the Cultivating Heart Secret Technique is the hardest one.’ Xue Ying did not dare underestimate this technique. If one’s first entry into the Three Devil Palaces were the most critical part of the process and acquiring the command token represented half the work, then successfully cultivating this final secret technique would be the other half! Both the Dissolving Blood and the Eroding Bone secret techniques could be easily completed by most paragons with enough time.

However, the Cultivating Heart Secret Technique was different.

Some paragons would simply never succeed.

“Begin.” Xue Ying sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began his cultivation.

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The Cultivating Heart Secret Technique was divided into three boundaries.

The first boundary was known as Despondence.

Xue Ying’s True Deity Heart, as seen in his consciousness, was quite large. It had the appearance of a child-sized Xue Ying. The very moment he started his cultivation, shackles began appearing on the surface of his True Deity Heart, locking him within. These chains were like soldering iron, and they left anything they touched in intense pain. “Ah!” It was the sort of pain applied directly to the soul.

As the pain increased, Xue Ying could not help but growl. His body soon began to tremble, and he fell down paralyzed the very next moment.

He had not even once been left paralyzed during his cultivation of the previous two secret techniques, even as he was reaching the final stages. But cultivating the Cultivating Heart Secret Technique left him in such intense pain from the very start that he could not even move. On top of that, this pain would only increase with time.