Chapter 460: Three Stages Of Death (1/2)
Chapter 460: Three Stages Of Death
The seventh prince - Grand Universe Palm
The eighteenth prince - Thunderbolt Art
The seventy-second prince - Boneshift Profound Power
These three merit laws were top-notch for cultivation. Just one alone could prop up an entire sect.
These three all had big shots backing them up. Among them, the most talented seventy-second prince had the Grand Chancellor’s favor, wanting him to become the next successor.
After perfecting their merit laws, they handed it over to the old man dressed in gold to check. They then left the mountain to find a disciple since time was of the essence.
Feiyun didn’t think about anything else. He sat on the path and used the Minor Change Art in order to calculate the flaws within the Devil Art Of Death.
The old man also quietly meditated, connecting his body with the world. He looked just like a withered tree now.
‘This art’s principle isn’t really about death.’ Feiyun came up with this analysis after an hour.
‘Death is divided into three stages - near-death, death of the body, end of life.’
Near-death, the first stage; this was when the divine intents left the body. The brain would fall into a coma with breathing and heartbeat stopping. This wasn’t a real death since the person could come back.
Death of the body, the second stage; the divine intents were no longer constrained by time and space. It could fly out of the body with one’s thought. At this point, the blind could see; the mute could speak; the deaf could hear.
In other words, the person could see the real world for several minutes or replay an entire lifetime of memories.
This was the reason why so many people on the verge of death would start to cry. They were recalling the past and their biggest regrets even though they couldn’t do anything about it. That’s why they strengthened their grip on whatever they were holding, wishing to clutch back at all the regrets and unfulfilled dreams in life. Alas, death stopped them from doing so.
There would be a monumental change during this period. It might just be several minutes outside but within the cultivator, a lifetime had passed.
This was the principle of the devil art, utilizing this short period for cultivation. After each death”, one’s cultivation would crazily soar.
For example, a youth that had lived for ten years; it didn’t matter what his current cultivation was. While training the devil art at the second stage, he would be able to have ten years of cultivation in just a few minutes after he consolidated his new power and refined the remnant death energy inside his body
Just like that, as time went on, the minutes of reflection before death became longer and their cultivation would rise even more. After the fifth or sixth death, it would be equivalent to someone else’s training for a thousand years.
This was the magical property of the art but in here the danger loomed. At the second stage, people could still come back to life but one careless step could take them to the third stage of death.
This third stage was true death; there was no coming back.
This cultivation art was terrifyingly incredible but a single mishap could result in death. Later on, time was even harder to judge. After all, several minutes were the same as several hundred years or even several thousand years. Even an Enlightened Being couldn’t easily keep track of time.
Thus, training this art didn’t mean dying continuously for better cultivation. After each death, one would need a long period to improve their divine intents. This period would increase proportionally to one’s power.
Only when their divine intents reached a particular level would they be able to die again.
“The Devil Art Of Death is different from a phoenix’s rebirth. The latter is burning the self to rise again from the ashes while the former focuses on training during the second stage of death, not a true death.”
“Here lies the biggest flaw of the devil art. After waking up from death, there is still a large amount of death energy in the body, permeating in all corners. If one can’t refine this energy and fix the dead cells, then they would explode after getting in combat.”
“In order to cultivate this art, one must train in the strongest of physique art on top of having a willpower several hundred times greater than an ordinary person.”
The ancestors of the royal clan have certainly thought about these points. They must have picked some testers with strong physique arts but their mistake must have been picking geniuses. Alas, training in the devil art didn’t necessarily require a genius, but someone who can persevere and handle pain the best.