Chapter 30 - 30 Monarchs Eternal Body (1/2)

'Monarch's Eternal Body'

Shun Long instantly understood everything after these images flashed through his mind. The 'Monarch's Eternal Body' was a heaven-defying technique just like the 'Monarch's Hourglass'.

However the 'Monarch's Eternal Body' was completely different from the 'Monarch's Hourglass'.

This was a body refinement art.

Shun Long had already learned earlier from Lu Wen's books, that there were 2 types of cultivators.

Qi cultivators and body cultivators.

Qi cultivators gathered qi inside their bodies by circulating their cultivation techniques, whereas body refinement cultivators would refine their bodies instead.

When Shun Long had been in the 'Sky Fortune Kingdom' he hadn't even heard of body cultivators. Body refinement is said to be 100 times more difficult than qi cultivation, thus it had completely disappeared from the 'Mortal world'.

Despite the higher difficulty though, there were plenty of cultivators who focused on body refinement in the 'Cultivation world'.

Shun Long had understood from these images in his head, what type of body art the 'Monarch's Eternal Body' was. It was an art that enhanced the body and made the person cultivating in it able to tear space with his bare hands.

Shun Long knew that he already had a cultivation technique that could affect time around him, but he was just too weak to properly use it at the moment. Now with a body that could tear through space as well, he wondered

''How strong will I become by then?''

He sat in his room cross-legged as he studied this body refinement art.

In the 'Cultivation world', it was unbelievably hard for people to follow a path of both qi and body refinement as they were two completely different paths. To become a qi cultivator, the qi you absorbed from nature had to pass through your meridians and circulate through your body, before becoming yours to use.

However, the path of body refinement was completely different. The most common way to cultivate in body refining was to train your body for many years, injuring yourself every time before then consuming medicinal pills or taking medicinal baths that could help you recover and strengthen yourself even further.

Shun Long though, knew that he couldn't follow this path of body refinement. Firstly, he didn't have enough time to do so as that would require many years to succeed and secondly, the 'Monarch's Eternal Body' was completely different and couldn't be trained in such a way.

It required Shun Long to refine certain medicinal pills and use the immense energy they contained to destroy and then rebuild his body from the inside.

However, every path had its own shortcomings.

Although it would be faster for Shun Long to advance in body refinement compared to other body cultivators who have been training their bodies for years, he would have to pay the equivalent price for it.

Instead of having your bones, tendons, and internal organs to slowly strengthen themselves like they usually would have during body refinement, the 'Monarch's Eternal Body' would completely crush them before reforming them properly. This was the kind of pain that couldn't be described with just the word excruciating.

Shun Long was slightly afraid inside. The smallest misstep could cause him to die this time.