103: The Indestructible Golden Body: The Three Dharmas Combined to Create Immortality (Part 2)

Seven days later, a large three-legged forging cauldron appeared in Chen Cuo's backyard rockery.

Inside the cauldron was a burning flame lampwick, which was not the most important thing; what was more noteworthy was the smoke swirling above it, which was the Qi of the Fire Spiritual Root, the Qi of the Earth Elemental Fire.

An Earth Fire Spiritual Vein was drawn and repositioned, connecting to a Five Elements Rotation Formation. Formation Cultivation Techniques were truly hard to find. A few days ago, White Egret promised to find him a Formation technique, but there had been no results until now.

Although Formation was the most difficult of the Hundred Arts of Cultivation, the principle of 'one understanding leads to all understanding' still applied. The original very simple Five Elements Formation had been upgraded with the understanding of the Dao of Artifact Refining and could barely be called a Formation now.

The Body Refining Cultivation Technique in the "South Ming Great Fire Forging Method" was an accompanying one, named the Hammer Forging Method, which followed the idea of treating a person as an artifact and forging the body with fire.

It was about refining the Physical Body like a Magical Artifact to ultimately forge a formidable physique. In the Early Stage, it required collecting Fire Evil Qi and grinding the flesh and blood.

The power of Fire Evil Qi was available in the Earth Fire Vein of the Bailu Smithy. This Fire Vein was separated from the volcano at the center of the Great Snow Mountain. Yes, the entire Great Snow Mountain was a massive volcano.

However, this volcano was a dormant one, and its continuous Fire Qi was suppressed by the city's Formation, constantly being extracted and transformed into Earth Fire, which was then distributed to over twenty Alchemy and Artifact Refining factions for use.

Chen Cuo took the opportunity to divert one of the three Earth Fires from the Artifact Refining workshop. His house, along with the entire backyard, directly became his Dao field. Even White Egret needed his permission to enter.

The Hammer Forging Method's benefit to his Body Refining was evident. Treating a person as an artifact and forging the body with fire, refining bones with high temperatures, was practically like roasting raw meat.

"Five Elements rotate, Wood generates Fire, Fire generates Earth, Earth generates Metal, Metal generates Water, Water Lotus blooms, Water Wood Youth, Pure Lotus Clear Dew forms."

On the morning of the eighth day, with the morning dew and the descent of Huayin, it was the time of day when spiritual energy was most active. Chen Cuo injected True Qi into Xiao Ling's body. Xiao Ling breathed and absorbed, and the True Qi slowly circulated, reaching the burning Earth Fire. The Earth Fire was scorching hot, refining the lampwick. A wisp of smoke entered the silver kill holy sword.

The silver kill holy sword emitted a golden light, shooting directly into the Water Spirit Lotus.

At this moment, the Water Spirit Lotus fully bloomed, and each petal was adorned with an extremely pure water droplet.

Chen Cuo gently picked up the glass bottle and carefully collected every water droplet. Xiao Qing looked at the water droplets with an extremely longing gaze.

"Alright, just one for you!"

This substance was precisely the Pure Lotus Clear Dew he had produced by activating the Five Elements Rotation Formation, an extremely pure Water Elemental Spirit material.

It could be used to purify the Physical Body's turbidity and Evil Qi, washing away ill fortune, and was very suitable for boosting Xiao Qing's Cultivation.

However, for him, its true purpose was to Cultivate a Cultivation Technique, the "Clear Spirit Art."

It was one of the Innate Cultivation Techniques he had bought for ten Spirit Crystals at the market, along with another one called "White Evil Art."

The two Cultivation Techniques were not profound but had deep implications, using the Clear Qi and Evil Qi existing between heaven and earth for Cultivation. The reason Chen Cuo had not Cultivated these two Cultivation Techniques was not because Clear Qi and Evil Qi were hard to find.

Rather, it was unsuitable; it offered little to no benefit for his Physical Body Cultivation, even being quite useless.

Until he obtained the Hammer Forging Method!

The Hammer Forging Method's philosophy had many coincidences with this method. It was just right to condense the Clear Spirit and Turbid Evil bodies during the Cultivation of the third layer of the Dragon Tiger Golden Body.

The Fire Evil Qi existed in the Earth Fire, and the Clear Qi was naturally the Pure Lotus Clear Qi that dispersed after the Pure Lotus Clear Dew volatilized.

With everything prepared, Chen Cuo completed all the trivial matters.

At noon, braving the scorching sun, when the fire was at its strongest, he leaped into the large cauldron.

Flames!

Scorching heat!

Burning endlessly!

True Qi circulated, and the Fire Spirit Ring on his hand controlled a flame that instantly blazed fiercely on his body.

The water droplets in the glass bottle instantly evaporated, transforming into a wisp of water mist different from the surrounding smoke, which he inhaled into his abdomen with a single breath.

Palms facing the sky, Five Elements returning to the heart, the flames were endless.

His body was tempered by the endless flames, as if a large hammer was striking his bones and muscles. Pressure surged in, and Chen Cuo felt as if he had become a piece of raw iron.

Smashed flat, then put into a forging furnace for quenching.

Within his body, Clear Qi and Fire Evil Qi merged, Yin and Yang combined, Clear and Turbid cultivated as one. Two completely opposite forces slowly unified!

He already had experience with this matter.

Chen Cuo kept his mind focused, only feeling that in the ethereal, he seemed to transform into the two forms of Dragon and Tiger.

Unfortunately, Chen Cuo soon felt that the Clear Qi was insufficient, leaving only Fire Evil Qi, making it impossible to achieve balance, and he was forced to awaken from his Cultivation.

Chen Cuo opened his eyes and emerged from the large cauldron. It was already dusk, and the sun was about to set.

"Heh, Cultivation knows no time. Now, achieving Perfection will probably take a lot of time!"

He tapped his hand, and a message popped up on the System panel.

"Do you want to fuse 'Dragon Tiger Golden Body', 'Clear Spirit Art', 'White Evil Art', 'Hammer Forging Method', etc.?"

"Yes!"

"Congratulations, new Cultivation Technique Fusion complete. Please name it, Host!"

"Let's call it 'Dragon Purity Tiger Evil Forging Golden Body'!"

Relying on his Cultivation insights, Chen Cuo's mind stirred, and an improved Body Refining Cultivation Technique came into being.

However, it would take a lot of time to Cultivate this Cultivation Technique to Perfection, the most important reason being the insufficient Pure Lotus Clear Dew.

...

Ten years later, White Egret was worried about how to sell some of the exquisite Magical Artifacts Chen Cuo had refined without affecting the entire market of Xueshan City and without attracting the attention of the several big shots in Xueshan City.

Of course, this was the trouble of being wealthy. Nothing else, because the Magical Artifacts Chen Cuo had recently refined were becoming increasingly abnormal and precious. Taking them out would disrupt the market.

One or two pieces were fine, but the key was that there were many. They could only be bought for a dozen Spirit Stones in Xueshan City. If they were outside, she even doubted if the Bai family could handle the goods she had stored in the warehouse.

However, after Chen Cuo decided to join Lingbao Mountain through the Bai family's path, his Artifact Refining time gradually decreased. More of his time was spent on Cultivation, Cultivation!

The key was that it would be fine if he only Cultivated, but he also learned Alchemy, learned Talisman-making, learned Formations, and learned various miscellaneous arts. White Egret sometimes couldn't understand why Chen Cuo hadn't even reached Innate Great Perfection yet. Wasn't he afraid of missing Foundation Establishment after crossing realms?

White Egret looked towards Chen Cuo's backyard. At this moment, the backyard was ablaze with fire, and the occasional fierce flames could be seen from afar.

Rolling, intense, crimson flames, emitting scorching high temperatures, burned in the entire large cauldron. Sparks flew around Chen Cuo's body.

He had completely transformed into a fire person.

At this time, Chen Cuo sat cross-legged at ease, his skin a blood-red color, his blood flowing like magma, slowly congealing.

Two streams of Qi emerged from his nostrils, like erupting volcanoes.

His entire skin was covered with black and white patterns, and these patterns were constantly flowing, sometimes like a Dragon, sometimes like a Tiger.

His Physical Body exuded endless vitality. The sound of his heart beating was even comparable to a drum, irritating his eardrums, reverberating in his mind incessantly.

With the last turbid breath exhaled, Chen Cuo's entire body erupted in golden light. As his bones stretched, they actually emitted roars like a Dragon and a Tiger.

Fate Points: 1438

"'Dragon Purity Tiger Evil Forging Golden Body' Perfection. Do you want to Awaken Talent?"

...

Fate Points decreased by two hundred!

Would there be another choice?

"Congratulations, Host, for Awakening the Talent, Indestructible Golden Body!"

[Indestructible Golden Body: The Golden Body is imperishable, the Physical Body is indestructible. The Divine Soul may die, the will may dissipate, but only when the Physical Body returns to the Clear and Turbid Qi can it be eternally imperishable!]

This meant that as long as his Dragon Tiger Golden Body had enough Clear Spirit and Turbid Evil Qi, his vitality would never be cut off, eternally imperishable.

This talent actually had a drawback, still requiring sufficient Clear Qi and Evil Qi, and it was also not true Indestructible and Eternal. It could only be the Physical Body that was Undying, but...

"Hahaha, I sought Immortality for fifty years, saying even a Mortal can achieve Immortal Ascension!"

"System, fuse them for me!"

True Spirit Undying + Indestructible Golden Body + Indestructible Soul!

The Indestructible Soul was formed because the Indestructible Primordial Candle, born from True Spirit Undying, had always resided in the Sea of Consciousness, continuously burning Chen Cuo's Divine Soul, thus having the effect of stable indestructibility.

The entire grid, glowing with one reddish-gold and two purplish-gold Fate Points, was instantly drained!

Fate Points: 1238 → 38

"Congratulations, Host, for Awakening the Talent Indestructible and Eternal!"

[Indestructible and Eternal: Eternal life, eternal imperishability!]

Chen Cuo took a step, the flames completely vanished, and he chanted softly:

"Ten thousand blades upon my body, countless knives, Physical Body and Divine Soul completely erased. Three Ethereal Souls and Seven Corporeal Spirits eternally fixed, when life ends, who can escape? Immortality is not a path to invincibility, only I am eternally free in this world. Leaping beyond the Three Realms and Five Elements, I laugh as I watch the floating clouds change seasons."