Chapter 5: The Ultimate Body!

Afternoon.

Yu Yuan looked around his clean room and fell into deep thoughts.

After his Soul of Earth returned, killing a Red Shell Bloodworm and hurting the spell caster was nothing difficult.

“Our clan is still too weak. Without protection from another powerful source, Cold Shadows Sect could still easily wipe us out.”

“To compete with Lin and Huang Clan, as well as the Cold Shadows Sect, I need to develop my strength and cultivation quickly. The current situation can only be turned toward my favor when I am powerful enough. I need to pave a straight path for the clan!”

“I regret that I couldn’t cultivate due to the limitations of my past life, but now I am going to make it all up.

“One day, I will return to the Land of Extinction and the Devine Medicine Sect to fight my martial brother!”

He was only better than his brother Zhong Chichen in medicine.

Zhong Chichen didn’t have any defects in his meridians. Aside from medicine, he was also very talented in cultivation. When his master brought him to the Medicine God Sect, Zhong Chichen had already reached the Yin God Realm.

Now, three hundred years later, how strong would he be?

Yang God Realm? Or Free Spirit Realm?

With this thought, Yu Yuan took a deep breath. Compared to the tiny problem that the Yu Clan was facing, the problem with his brother seemed to be a giant mountain on top of him.

“At the beginning of cultivation, one needs to absorb the spirit of the world, lead them through the meridians and toward the Yellow Room……”

In Yu Yuan’s Soul of Earth, he remembered all the methods of cultivation from the past life that could help him now to the real Path of Cultivation.

There were thousands of ways to cultivate and every sect had its own. They were divided into classes.

The advanced class of cultivation methods can reduce cultivation time by almost half and contains other powerful benefits.

The lower class of cultivation methods can bring the cultivator numerous troubles later along the way and it might cause one to be stuck in a realm forever.

During his past life, he collected all sorts of methods to assist him to get on the Path.

Moreover, of his status in the Divine Medicine Sect and The Land of Extinction, all the methods he saw were the best of the advanced.

Among them, there were methods from the top three sects in the Land of Genesis, countless from the Devil Temples, and even some forbidden evil methods.

“The first realm is called the Meridian Establishment Realm. It was divided into twelve different stages. The human body contains twelve meridians, known as the Main Meridians. The twelve meridians will circulate the spiritual energy from nature throughout the body. Follow the method of cultivation to sense nature’s spiritual energy and induce it through breathing into the pores of the body. At one point, it will start to open up the meridians one by one.

“Every opening of a meridian means a stage of the realm was completed. After all twelve are opened, the cultivator can then move on to the Contained Spirit Realm.”

…

Yu Yuan closed his eyes and calmly started to breathe.

There was spiritual energy anywhere in this world. No matter if it was the Land of Qianxuan, the Land of Extinction, or the Land of Genesis, everyone would have access to the energy.

However, the distribution varies from region to region.

It was generally recognized that throughout the Vast World, the Land of Genesis had the most concentration of spiritual energy. It was the best place for cultivation.

Next was the northern parts of the Land of Extinction. It was also very suitable for cultivators to develop quickly.

Finally, it was the Land of Qianxuan.

Because of that, the most powerful sects and cultivators were all from the Land of Genesis or the Land of Extinction. A common man would rarely go to these places.

In contrast, even though the Land of Qianxuan had six large Empires and billions of people, only a few were real cultivators.

Even when there were a few talented in cultivation like Lin Zhuyun, the masters from the Land of Genesis or the Land of Extinction would spot them and take them away when they reached the Dark Burst Realm. After that, those lucky ones would forever be different from the common men.

Huff! Huff!

As Yu Yuan breathed, he easily sensed the weak spiritual energy around him. He naturally started absorbing it toward the stomach area and tried to lead it to the meridians.

“Hmm!”

He couldn’t help yelling and opened up his eyes. His eyes glowed in the light.

After rebirth, before his Souls of Earth and Heaven had returned, he found that some of the twelve meridians eight were already opened!

This means that, while he was unconscious, he absorbed enough spiritual energy to open eight of the meridians!

Meridian Establishment Ream, stage eight!

“If I am in the Land of Genesis or Extinction, reaching Meridian Establishment stage eight at the age of seventeen is real bad. But in the Land of Qianxuan where spiritual energy is low and without any instruction, reaching stage eight at the age of seventeen is very rare.”

“Aside from that, I do not even have my Souls of Earth and Heaven!

“In this condition, without any knowledge of cultivation, how did I figure out the way to reach stage eight?”

Yu Yuan smiled. He suddenly became confident about the unknown future.

With only his Soul of Life, he unconsciously reached Meridian Establishment stage eight. What did that mean?

That proved to him that this time he had some extraordinary talents!

He tested his body again and after a while, he said, “Aha! That is why!”

Since birth, different people had already shown different body types.

Some people were born to be suitable for cultivation, while others, no matter how hard they worked, still cannot step on to the Path of Cultivation.

Among the billions in the world, only some people were able to become cultivators. It was like destiny. The chances of being chosen were rare, about one in a thousand.

That was why Yu Yuan laughed. He knew that this time he was one of the chosen ones.

Just then, as he was breathing, he surprisingly found that the small amounts of spiritual energy seeped through the pores on his skin.

Compared to the energy received from his nose and mouth, it was much more subtle, but with so many pores around his body, the energy accumulates into a significant amount.

And the energy that was obtained through pores was extra!

He knew exactly what this body type was.

“No wonder that I was able to reach stage eight with two of my souls missing from the body.”

“I never expected that I got the Ultimate Body!”

This “Ultimate Body” refers to those who were able to absorb spiritual energy not only through the nose and mouth but also through the pores on the skin.

Most cultivators could also achieve that slowly through hard work.

However, that would be a skill after the Dark Burst Realm.

In the final stage of the Dark Burst Realm, eight additional meridians that connected to the Middle Core would have to be opened to supply the body enough energy. It would retrain the body’s organs, and, during that process, the cultivator will obtain the ability to receive spiritual energy from the pores on the skin.

And during this life, due to his amazing talents, he could do that from the day of his birth!

“With the aid of Ultimate Body, my path of cultivation will be much smoother! This means that I have a head start! Faster spiritual energy absorption means faster cultivation and faster restoration! God might be guilty of giving me such a pitiful past life, and this time is my compensation!”

Yu Yuan took a deep breath excitingly. In his Soul of Earth, a spark of light from memory shone extremely bright and stood out from the surrounding “stars”.

He summoned a mysterious advanced cultivation method from his Soul of Earth.

“Nine Bright Heavenly Cycles!”

With a silent shout in his mind, the spiritual energy rushed into his mouth, nose, and skin. It flowed into the Lower Core like a wave on the sea.

Lower Core was where the Yellow Hall located. Also the realm after Meridian Establishment and Contained Spirit.

The real Yellow Hall Realm was when all of the meridians were all opened and the body was capable to contain the spiritual energy. The energy will flow from the twelve meridians to the little world in the Yellow Hall.

Right now, Yu Yuan only got to stage eight out of the twelve, and his body wasn’t nourished by spiritual energy as well. So, he could not directly lead the energy into his Yellow Hall yet.

For now, he accumulated all the spiritual energy little by little to surround the Lower Core’s Yellow Hall.

They were gathered into nine controllable little energy balls.

In his consciousness, the small energy balls were only about the size of rice grains.

“The light of rice grains that can be brighter than the sun’s rays. It was the Nine Bright Heavenly Cycles!”

Nine dot-sized energy balls started circled around his Yellow Room in the Lower Core.

As if suddenly, there was an invisible light wheel ribbon that trapped the Lower Core.

Yu Yuan sensed that his Ultimate Body, under the effects of the Nine Bright Heavenly Cycles, increased its speed of energy absorption from the pores.

After a while…

The light wheel surrounding the Lower Core suddenly condensed into a pure stream of spiritual energy and rushed toward the unopened ninth meridian!

He instantly felt a gush of sour and pain.

Gasp!

Yu Yuan drew in a cool breath and was quite pleasant.

He knew that the sensation of pain was indeed from the ninth meridian which was being opened by energy from the Nine Bright Heavenly Cycles.

“Great!”

Yu Yuan grinned his teeth, attempting to bear the pain from his meridian. With more focus, he felt subtle changes were happening to his ninth meridian.

Meridian breakthrough was like opening a clogged gully, and the spiritual energy was like the plow that could be used to open it.

When the meridians were unobstructed, the spiritual power would be able to flow in through the gully like water inside the meridian. Then the energy would be able to enter the blood, flesh, and organs. From there, the cultivator would be in the Contained Spirit Realm.

Rush!

That stream of energy near the ninth meridian was slowly exhausted, like a fire finally extinguished.

And the ninth meridian was almost about a tenth of its way from being opened!

“The Nine Bright Heavenly Cycles are indeed effective. So much was done in just one rush of a cycle! In this speed, even without the aid of pills or elixir, I might be able to open this meridian in less than a month and reach stage nine!”