105 I Was Wrong, It Was Just an Erotic Dream (1/2)

This Heaven Burning Blood Technique was not unfamiliar to most of the cultivators in the Blue River Region; in fact, it could even be described as famous.

Or more accurately, notorious. Several months ago, Daoist Master Zhifeng was defeated at the Spirit Sword Mountain and sent back with tail between his legs. Although the two sects both had concealed the details in order to save face, the negative assessment of the Heaven Burning Blood Technique was actually slipped through.

First, this technique was denounced as a big evil technique by the Spirit Sword Sect Elder. However, the fact that Daoist Master Zhifeng had used this Heaven Burning Blood Technique to develop a large number of low-level cultivators at White Moon Country became widely known. Later on, the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals sent a large number of cultivators to form a research team. Using the information that they gathered from Zhifeng and the remnant of the Thousand Spirit Sect’s confession, they conducted a comprehensive study of that improved technique.

However, the group could only sigh because the result of this comprehensive study of the Heaven Burning Blood Technique actually supported the inference of the Spirit Sword Sect Elder: at its present form, the technique had too many defects.

The Spirit Sword Sect Elder explanation of the defect which consisted of something about it shaking the cultivator’s Dao Heart, becoming just an observer, was like trying to see the peak of the mountain that was shrouded in mist; it was difficult to see its true meaning. However, a simpler explanation was available: this Heaven Burning Blood Technique could not really help someone’s cultivation. It was like having an erotic dream that felt really real; it was extremely comfortable, yet it could not change any of the actual things.

The basic principle of the Heaven Burning Blood Technique was to burn the most valuable thing in a person—their lifespan—in exchange for a large amount of magical power, which could be used to advance one’s cultivation. However, magical power was, by no means, the sole contributor to the cultivation advancement; exchanging this alone wasn’t enough. As a simple example, after arduously training for thirty years, a cultivator with Six Harmonies Spirit Root could reach a high-level Qi Cultivating Stage. If that cultivator used the Heaven Burning Blood Technique, the amount of time needed to reach the same stage could be shortened by, perhaps, several years. However, in exchange to that, that cultivator’s lifespan was shortened by more than sixty years. If there was the slightest bit of carelessness, the lifespan could be burned so intensely that it would lead to sudden death. Zhifeng had tried to improve this technique, but what he was able to achieve was just to avoid the risk of sudden death, and slightly decreased the burning of the lifespan from sixty years to… fifty-nine years. Essentially speaking, it didn’t change at all.

This was too ridiculous. By Zhifeng’s words, this improved version of Heaven Burning Blood Technique could be regarded as a big turning point that could give everybody the opportunity to become Immortal Cultivators, while in essence, this technique actually blocked people’s future cultivation development. If a cultivator with man-made spirit root like Six Harmonies Spirit arduously trained for one hundred years, he would ultimately succeed in reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage. However, if he had instead used the Heaven Burning Blood Technique, that cultivator would’ve burned his lifespan just to reach, at most, high-level Qi Cultivating Stage. Moreover, because the cultivation progressed too quick, the cultivation would be like a sand castle, unable to withstand a single blow.

If there were any positive use, this Heaven Burning Blood Technique was only good if one used it to make a breakthrough. For example, one was stuck in a bottleneck because of the lack of aptitude, unable to make a breakthrough to the next stage, one could use one’s lifespan to gamble with the Heaven Burning Blood Technique to obtain some breakthrough and then regain back some of his lifespans; this could only be used as a last resort trick. However, if this technique were to be proliferated around the world as the magical weapon to speed up the cultivation, then that would be too ridiculous.

If this were still in the Age of Chaos thousands of years ago, no one would bat an eye if such an ignorant technique spread around. However, now there were already the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals, so the Immortal Cultivation World could never tolerate the widespread use of this opportunistic technique. If everyone resorted to burning their lifespan every time they encountered difficulties in the hope of achieving a breakthrough, then the Immortal Cultivation World would have no future at all.

Therefore, when Wang Lu proposed this plan, he was immediately challenged.

“Are you having a brain cramp? How could you even think about using this? Aren’t you afraid your Master would grab you back and beat you up?”

“Ridiculous, why would she come to look me for trouble? It’s not like we won’t share the levied intelligence tax with her…”

“You know she hates that Heaven Burning Blood Technique.”

“On the contrary, I don’t think so.”

Speaking to this, Wang Lu somewhat asked a question in jest, “Sister Ling, have you ever thought from where I learned this Heaven Burning Blood Technique?”

Little Ling’Er was stunned. “From where?”

“Even if I am a top student, I’m not born with knowledge. It has to come from somewhere. Even the most knowledgeable person in the sect, Martial Uncle Liu Xian, didn’t know about this improved version of Heaven Burning Blood Technique… Can you guess from where I learned it?”

“... You're kidding me, right!? That’s impossible!” Speaking to this, it slowly dawned on little Ling’Er that the one who imparted the technique was Wang Wu herself!

“It’s not so much as my Master hates the Heaven Burning Blood Technique, but rather she hates it when people use it as a shortcut in cultivation, and I agree with her: All retards shall die. However, the Heaven Burning Blood Technique itself is innocent. Not to mention even if it’s shit, as long as it has its use, it has its utility. That’s why I use this Heaven Burning Blood Technique not to take shortcuts.”

“... So, you’re using it for fun?”

“It has nothing to do with fun or not; it’s the step that needs to be taken for the Wisdom Sect to develop. Think about it, what kind of people are we developing? They’re penniless, aptitude-less, and perception-less wastes! Such people, in my Master’s words, need to stay home and eat sh*t; they have nothing to do with Immortal Cultivation! The only good point that they have is their lifespan, so, if they really want to cultivate, what else could they do besides going all out?”

The Holy Maiden was puzzled. “So what if they go all out? Using the Heaven Burning Blood Technique is still not worth it…”