61: Chapter 61 Intercepting the Body Refining Technique

In the Great Yu Cultivation World, at the ruins of Qingmu Cliff, there was a charred deep pit.

The night wind stirred up a pungent, scorched stench. At the bottom of the pit, two Demonic Path Cultivators from the Blood Fiend Sect were intently using a soul-drawing banner to harvest the souls from the remaining corpses.

Gu Shen, hiding behind a giant rock, had eyes like a wolf staring at its prey.

"Now is the time."

Gu Shen took a deep breath. There was no fluctuation of Qi on his body, but the muscles in his legs, which had been reshaped by the dark green marrow fluid, tightened to the limit in an instant, like a fully drawn powerful bow!

Bang!

The charred ground behind the giant rock was stomped into a pit half a foot deep!

Without any flashy opening moves, Gu Shen transformed into a black gale hard to capture with the naked eye, charging down along the pit wall.

A distance of thirty zhang was covered in an instant!

"Who?!"

That Senior Brother with the sinister gaze had extremely keen perception. The moment Gu Shen erupted, he sensed the malicious wind from behind. He turned his head abruptly, his right hand instinctively slapping towards his Storage Pouch, wanting to summon a Magical Artifact.

But it was too late.

"Pierce!"

Gu Shen let out a cold shout in his heart.

His Divine Sense at the Peak of Qi Refining Level 7 turned into an invisible Soul-Shocking Spike, slamming into the Sea of Consciousness of that sinister Senior Brother without reservation.

"Ugh—!"

The sinister Senior Brother let out an extremely painful muffled groan. The hand slapping towards his Storage Pouch suddenly stiffened, and black blood flowed from his seven orifices. In a fight between Cultivators of the same rank, taking a full-force attack on the Divine Sense without any defense was enough to plunge him into a fatal one-breath dizziness.

One breath was too long for the current Gu Shen.

Clang!

The thunder pattern gold-slaying blade, wrapped in violent dark blue thunder, roared out of its sheath.

Gu Shen gripped the blade with both hands and, borrowing the terrifying momentum of his dive, slashed down at the neck of that sinister Senior Brother!

Squelch!

Even though that Senior Brother was wearing a top-grade defensive inner armor, under the shearing of the thunder pattern gold-slaying blade, it was still as fragile as a thin piece of paper.

The head flew into the sky, and the severed end was instantly scorched by the thunder, not even a drop of blood spraying out.

"Senior Brother!!!"

The Junior Brother holding the soul-drawing banner beside him only reacted at this moment, his eyes splitting with rage. He let out a roar like a wild beast, bit the tip of his tongue, and sprayed a mouthful of essence blood onto the soul-drawing banner.

"Go to hell!"

Whoosh—!

The soul-drawing banner swelled in the wind, turning into an extremely thick blood-colored cloud of yin. Dozens of hideous blood-colored vengeful souls rushed out from within, baring their fangs and claws as they bit towards Gu Shen's face.

Gu Shen stood his ground, moving forward instead of retreating.

"Condense!"

Green light erupted on his body, and the Wood Armor Technique instantly formed a thick layer of vine armor.

Those blood-colored vengeful souls crashed into the Wood Armor, emitting a tooth-aching corrosive sound. An ordinary Qi Refining Level 7 Cultivator, facing such a filthy Magical Artifact, would see their protective spiritual light dissipate in at most three breaths.

But Gu Shen not only had the Wood Armor for protection, but also a terrifying Physical Body that had just undergone metamorphosis!

Bang!

Gu Shen lifted the black turtle shield with his left hand, forcibly enduring the biting of the vengeful souls that filled the sky, and took a violent step forward. The powerful strength of his Physical Body passed through the shield, directly smashing the few vengeful souls at the very front until they dissipated!

He flipped his right wrist, and the gold-severing saber slashed from bottom to top, carving out an eye-catching half-moon of thunder light.

"Break!"

The thunder was extremely rigid and masculine, the natural nemesis of all evil!

The dark blue blade light directly split that blood-colored cloud of yin in half! The blade's momentum remained undiminished as it hacked fiercely into the chest of that Junior Brother.

Crack.

The sound of bones breaking rang out. That Junior Brother was split into two along with his banner by this strike, and his charred corpse slammed heavily into the bottom of the pit.

Two breaths!

Two elites of the Sect of the same rank, under such a violent surprise attack from Gu Shen who was almost a Body Cultivator, both died without even releasing a complete Spell.

Gu Shen let out a long breath of turbid air and sheathed his long blade.

His powerful Physical Body gave him an absolute crushing advantage in close-quarters combat.

He walked to the two corpses with agile movements and pressed his hand down.

In his Sea of Consciousness, the [Heaven and Earth Furnace] illusory fire swirled.

[Refining complete. Obtained: essence white dew (inferior) two drops.]

Gu Shen did not go to refine that damaged soul-drawing banner; such an extremely eye-catching Demonic Path Magical Artifact had the Sect's imprint left on it, and refining it would just invite disaster for himself. He kicked it directly into a rock crevice at the bottom of the pit.

He tore off the two men's Storage Pouches. His Divine Sense acted like a heavy hammer, forcibly wiping away the weak, ownerless imprints on them.

Clatter.

Two piles of items fell to the ground.

Gu Shen swept his gaze over them, and his breathing quickened slightly.

Sect Disciples were indeed much fatter than Loose Cultivators! Apart from thirty-something Low-Grade Spirit Stones and a few bottles of authentic Qi-returning pills and healing medicine, a gray-white Jade Slip was lying quietly among the items belonging to that sinister Senior Brother.

Gu Shen grabbed it in his hand and probed it with his Divine Sense.

Three large characters appeared in his Sea of Consciousness — Bone Refining Art!

"Found it!"

A flash of wild joy crossed Gu Shen's eyes. He quickly browsed through the contents of the Jade Slip.

This was an extremely basic, yet extremely domineering outer Sect Body Refining Cultivation Technique. It did not Cultivate the internal organs, only the skin, flesh, tendons, and bones. The core principle was to forge the entire body's bones until they were as hard as refined iron through extremely painful external force beatings and massive nourishment of blood and Qi.

Ordinary Cultivators practicing this method needed to consume massive amounts of Yao Beast essence blood and medicinal baths, and their progress was extremely slow.

But this was practically tailor-made for Gu Shen!

He had the dark green marrow fluid in his hand! That terrifying Origin of vitality extracted from the mutated poisonous mushrooms in the Wasteland, when used as blood and Qi nourishment, could definitely make the cultivation speed of the Bone Refining Art reach an unimaginable level!

"With this method, I can lock the medicinal power of the marrow fluid into my body without losing a single bit, and slowly Cultivate a Body Refining physique that fears no world-extinguishing poisonous light!"

Gu Shen put the Jade Slip and Spirit Stones into his Storage Ring.

Just as he was about to clean up the traces and use the [Heaven and Earth Furnace] to escape back to the Spiritless Ruins.

Hum—

Among the pile of miscellaneous items on the ground, a blood-red jade token suddenly vibrated violently, emitting circles of extremely eye-catching red light.

This was an emergency transmission order from the Blood Fiend Sect!

Gu Shen's pupils shrank slightly. He did not touch the jade token, but only probed it with a sliver of Divine Sense from afar.

From within the jade token came an extremely cold, angry shout carrying the pressure of the Foundation Establishment Stage:

"All Disciples on the outskirts of the Qingmu Cliff ruins, immediately gather at the Soul-Severing Valley to the north! A True Disciple of the Master of Qingmu Cliff has fled into the valley's Formation with that remnant of the blood lotus! Spare no cost to seal off the Soul-Severing Valley; you must not let him take the remnant away!"

Gu Shen withdrew his Divine Sense instantly, his eyes becoming extremely profound.

"A True Disciple of the Master of Qingmu Cliff? Escaped with the remnant?"

No wonder the Disciples of the Blood Fiend Sect and the Danding Sect were still wandering around the ruins like mad dogs. It turned out that in that earth-shattering purge, a core figure from Qingmu Cliff had actually broken out with that remnant of the blood lotus!

If this remnant was not retrieved, the Blood Sacrifice Array in the White Bone Forest could not perfectly close the net, and the Foundation Establishment Stage Elders of the two great Sects would definitely go insane.

"The Soul-Severing Valley is thirty miles to the north."

Gu Shen glanced at the jade token and sneered.

"The higher-ups of the two great Sects must all be rushing towards the Soul-Severing Valley now. These Qingmu Cliff ruins have instead become the safest place, hidden in plain sight."

Gu Shen did not join in the fun of that kind of immortal battle. He very decisively stepped the transmission jade token into powder.

"Let the outside world fight until heaven and earth collapse; I will go Cultivate my Bone Refining Art."

With a thought.

The phantom dissipated. The deep pit returned to deathly silence, leaving only that lingering trace of bloodiness in the wind.