25: The top-notch magic trick - Yuanshan Fusion Technique

"Hm? What is that?"

Just as Gu Changsheng was about to step forward, his feet went soft, and he almost stumbled, revealing a bitter smile.

After consecutive major battles, his physical strength was finally exhausted.

Especially that last bloody Sword Qi slash.

It not only consumed his Qi and physical strength but also drained his mental energy.

At this moment, Gu Changsheng felt as if he had pulled three all-nighters in his previous life, just a step away from the ICU.

Clang, clang—

The longquan sword hummed, and pure Yi Wood Vital Qi surged into his body.

Gu Changsheng immediately felt much better.

"I didn't expect that besides catalyzing spiritual plants, Yi Wood Vital Qi is also excellent for healing.

It's a pity that the original Human-faced Beast-hearted Fruit Tree, having been broken out of, can no longer be used to plant swords."

Things are unpredictable. In that situation, if he hadn't summoned the longquan sword, Gu Changsheng probably wouldn't have been able to kill the demon in front of him.

It's hard to weigh the gains and losses of Karma.

"As an Immortal... I must be open-minded..."

Gu Changsheng silently comforted himself.

Soon, with three-tenths of his strength recovered, Gu Changsheng stepped forward to investigate.

He frowned and picked up a small fragment of the demon with his hand.

It felt like metal and stone, with no sensation of flesh and blood.

"What a loss! This demon's true form is stone, not a flesh-and-blood demon, so it can't be eaten at all."

If it couldn't be eaten, it naturally couldn't replenish his Qi and blood.

Gu Changsheng thought about the Blood Dragon he had consumed, and his heart bled.

He glanced around; the only valuable part of the demon's remains was a purplish-red bead.

With a pull of his palm, a suction force emerged, and the purplish-red bead flew from the ground into his hand.

Gu Changsheng frowned: "The texture is neither metal nor jade, and there's no soul aura, so I can initially rule out a demon's remnant soul parasitizing inside.

However, there is a special energy within it..."

After several attempts, no matter what methods Gu Changsheng employed, he still couldn't figure it out.

"Forget it, there's plenty of time in the future to study it."

Gu Changsheng directly tossed the bead into his yin toad pouch, his gaze falling upon the demon's remains.

"This stone demon's main body is a great demon, so its sub-bodies are naturally not ordinary.

If I can draw a portrait, perhaps that will be the biggest gain from this trip.

The auspiciousness of the divination... is probably in this."

According to past experience, for a portrait to be effective, the target, whether dead or alive, needed to have most of its body intact and its face undamaged.

However, this demon was not made of flesh and blood but was a stone entity.

Theoretically, he could piece together a body like building blocks.

"Although there are many fragments, their shapes are irregular, which is perfect for piecing them together based on the edge marks.

Combined with the demon's original appearance in my memory, assembling a complete body is only a matter of time."

Gu Changsheng murmured.

After half a day, Gu Changsheng straightened up, stretching his sore waist, and in front of him stood a black stone sculpture.

Its face was ferocious, with a single eye growing between its brows, full of strangeness and ill omen. An ordinary person would have nightmares just by looking at it.

"It's finally done!"

Gu Changsheng took out his sketchbook and sketched lines on a blank page.

A moment later, a demon's image appeared on the sketchbook.

At the same time, a massive amount of information flooded into Gu Changsheng's mind, and scenes played out like a movie.

Black Qi permeated the heavens and earth, and a black stone absorbed the essence of the sun and moon.

The sun and moon rotated, and the stars shifted.

Countless years later, a viscous black liquid seeped from the heart of the black stone, flowing along the mountain range and covering the mountain.

Gradually, the black liquid engulfed the mountain stones, and a mysterious Evil Qi merged into the black stone along with the liquid.

Screech—

A large mouth appeared in the center of the black stone, its steel-like teeth opening and closing, devouring the surrounding mountain stones like a pulverizer.

Many years later, the black stone developed sentience, and countless black tentacles gradually grew from its body.

It devoured everything, consumed everything.

However, what it liked most was not flesh and blood, but the famous mountains and Peaks of the world.

Countless years later, its body mutated into a black city, filled with ghostly Qi.

The Demonic Path trembled in fear, calling it—Black Mountain.

One day, a long-browed Immortal descended. Holy sounds surged from the Void Realm, and Immortal birds and cranes circled around him.

With a single palm, Black Mountain was forever suppressed beneath the earth.

The earth rotated, the stars shifted, and mountains and rivers transformed. Black Mountain was covered with thick dust, and trees and flowers gradually grew on the dust, turning into an unknown valley.

"This Immortal... This Dao Gate... The Heaven Suppressing Palace..."

Gu Changsheng tried to clearly see the face of the long-browed Immortal, but it remained blurry and indistinct.

He only saw a golden light fall, auspicious clouds spread, and a bronze gate appeared in the heavens and earth, with the four characters 'Heaven Suppressing Palace' inscribed upon it.

The long-browed Immortal flicked his sleeve, and countless Immortal birds and cranes followed him into the bronze gate.

Just as the gate was about to close, the Immortal turned his head, and his gaze met Gu Changsheng's.

Suddenly, Gu Changsheng shivered, and the images in his mind shattered.

"He... noticed me..."

Gu Changsheng frowned.

That long-browed Immortal was clearly a top-tier big shot, an existence that had lived for who knows how many years.

Such an existence, even a glance across time and space, would draw attention.

The subtlety of this Karma, whether good or bad, was hard to fathom.

"It's a pity I didn't see his face clearly, otherwise I could have tried to draw his portrait..."

Gu Changsheng was very bold.

At this moment.

【Ding-dong, congratulations to the host for obtaining the Heaven-rank Demonic Path cultivation technique—Yuanshan Body Fusion Technique.】

"Hm? It really worked.

And it even dropped a Heaven-rank cultivation technique.

But why is there an extra piece of memory from just now?

Could it be that obtaining a Heaven-rank cultivation technique grants the memory and experience of the one whose portrait was drawn?"

Gu Changsheng felt a question arise in his heart.

Since he couldn't figure it out, he stopped thinking about it.

As an Immortal, a future top-tier big shot, the most important thing was to be open-minded.

His gaze shifted to the 【Yuanshan Body Fusion Technique】 on the panel.

【Yuanshan Body Fusion Technique (Heaven)】

【Description: Created by the Black Mountain Old Demon. Practitioners must sever their head and four limbs, burying them separately under the Five Elements famous mountains in the east, west, south, north, and center. Only those who remain uncorrupted and alive after 108 years can master it.】

"That's too absurd. Severing the four limbs is one thing.

But even cutting off the head, who could survive that?"

This cultivation technique was purely a recipe for suicide, and ordinary cultivators would only scoff at it.

If one truly practiced according to the description, were they tired of living?

"Yuanshan Body Fusion Technique... my first Heaven-rank cultivation technique..."

Gu Changsheng couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement.

The Python-Fox Technique, born in the heart space, which combined more than a dozen cultivation techniques, was only barely Sixth-rank.

Now, suddenly obtaining a Heaven-rank cultivation technique was like a poor boy winning fifty million, a true step to heaven.

Gu Changsheng's mind lightly tapped the '+' sign after 'Yuanshan Body Fusion Technique'.

As ten years of lifespan were consumed, an endless stream of insights flooded his mind.

In just a few breaths, it felt as if he had experienced severing his four limbs, head, and torso, being placed in a jade box, and buried under five famous mountains.

Winter passed and spring came, year after year.

Finally, in the 108th year, the five famous mountains melted, and surging mountain Qi converged into the limbs and head in the jade box.

Under the guidance of the mountain Qi, the body slowly drew near, fusing into one entity.

In reality, black Qi surged in the heart space, revealing a Black Stone Demon Spirit.

Though only First-rank in aura, it caused the Python-Fox Spirit, Dragon-Elephant Spirit, and others to retreat to the corners, trembling.

Gu Changsheng opened his eyes, a trace of vicissitudes of life flashing within them.

In reality, it was only a few breaths, but in his insights, his five senses had been sealed, and his body suppressed under a famous mountain for a hundred years.

That kind of solitude, despair, and madness was an unbearable torment.

Fortunately, he had endured it all.

His heart was filled with wild joy.

This Heaven-rank Yuanshan Body Fusion Technique could actually be cultivated up to the Twelfth-rank, all the way to the Peak of the Dongxuan Realm.