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Chapter 384: 384: Devouring Primordial Heaven Technique (Second Update)

Chapter 384: Chapter 384: Devouring Primordial Heaven Technique (Second Update)

That afternoon, the party from Zhige County left in a convoy of thirty vehicles under the watchful eyes of the public.

This scene left a deep impression on the people of Yangshan. Although the vehicles were not very fast due to the road conditions, the sight of thirty horseless carriages carrying hundreds of people, all lined up and departing in a procession, was magnificent.

For a long time thereafter, it was the main topic of conversation among the people of Yangshan: the Gu Family had truly managed to offend such influential figures; it was simply foolish. A clan with a thousand years of history had perished overnight.

Feng Jun and his group took their time on the return journey. They strolled leisurely and stopped often, only reaching the foot of Mount Zhige at midnight.

Seeing the brightly lit scene from afar, many breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts: Having spent a night in the dark and inconvenient Gu Family Village, our place is definitely better.

They returned on the last day of the three-day celebration. Although the fireworks had ended, the jugglers, storytellers, and opera troupes were still performing, and the banquet continued.

Upon his arrival, Feng Jun took out more fireworks, “Let’s set them off. A 600-li raid that eradicated the Gu Family is worth celebrating.”

After two tiring days and nights, everyone was finally able to relax completely, so they drank and toasted to their heart’s content, plotting to get thoroughly drunk.

Feng Jun didn’t join in the revelry but instead went back to his bedroom to take stock of the loot from the secret vault.

First, he looked at the other items and was surprised to find that within an inconspicuous clay pot, there were actually five crystals containing the legendary “Martial Dao Innate Pills.”

Martial Dao Innate Pills were refined by Immortals. High-Rank Martial Masters consuming these pills could greatly increase the chance of advancing to the Innate level. They were no less effective than natural treasures like the seven-colored ribbon grass.

Most importantly, advancing to the Innate level with these pills did not lead to an unstable foundation or the hidden dangers of forced enhancement. Therefore, it was quite considerate for an Immortal Family to spare the effort to refine pills for mortal martial cultivators.

Looking at the five Martial Dao Innate Pills, Feng Jun felt joy mingled with thoughts of the member of the Gu Family who had been chosen by the Wonderful Hand Pavilion, who had reached Innate status there and also met their end.

With so many Innate Pills in reserve, that person from the Gu Family didn’t have to go out to find opportunities.

Of course, the Gu Family’s tradition couldn’t be said to be wrong. Temporary strength meant little; a “continuous legacy of Innate experts” was the true survival path of a clan.

Unfortunately, those Innate Pills were now in his hands, which showed that there was no perfect plan in this world.

If finding the Martial Dao Innate Pills was a pleasant surprise, then the Chaos Sky Swallowing Technique was an absolute delight.

It was a true Cultivation Technique for immortals, tailored for martial cultivators who had broken through the Innate level and were ready to start cultivating as immortals.

Usually, after a martial cultivator broke through to the Innate level without any immortal fate, they would take the path of attaining enlightenment through martial arts. But once they encountered an immortal opportunity, they could be guided by an Immortal Family and start cultivation to refine their Qi as an immortal.

True cultivators begin with the shedding of their mortal body, from the first to the ninth layer. Once they break through the ninth layer of mortal shedding, they enter the Qi Refinement Realm.

For martial cultivators breaking through to Innate, all their acquired impurities are expelled from the body and transformed into pure Qi, connecting the heavens and earth through the bridge within, with Inner Qi that is ceaselessly self-renewing, signifying Innate status.

This state is equivalent to the final stage of a cultivator’s mortal shedding period. However, martial cultivators are ultimately not the same as immortal cultivators and cannot step over the threshold into the Qi Refinement Realm.

Enlightenment through martial arts is achieved by Innate Experts forcibly breaking into the threshold of the Qi Refinement Realm through their understanding of martial arts.

Cultivators who progress from the mortal shedding period to the Qi Refinement Realm inherit a continuous cultivation system. During the Qi Refinement Realm, they cannot stay afloat in the air, and they usually have less combat experience than Innate Experts.

Thus, those cultivators who have achieved enlightenment through martial arts tend to be more skilled in actual combat than those who have risen from the mortal shedding period.

When breaking through the Qi Refinement Realm to enter the Dust-Free Realm, the orthodox cultivators can also briefly fly, and compared to their counterparts who have achieved enlightenment through martial arts, they have a higher level of proficiency in utilizing Spiritual Energy, which evens the playing field.

In terms of future potential, the two are rather evenly matched:

Orthodox cultivators have a complete inheritance system and are authentic; those who seek enlightenment through martial arts have an unorthodox approach, but they possess unwavering determination.

Leaving these two types aside, there is another type: those who have broken through to Innate and are then guided away by an Immortal Family.

It is not uncommon for Innate Experts, instead of seeking enlightenment through martial arts, to start cultivating as immortals, going step by step from the Qi Refinement Realm. This is much more common than those who seek enlightenment through martial arts.

However, in the eyes of many cultivators, these types of cultivators really seem out of place, without a proper foundation or the strong will and perseverance to achieve enlightenment through martial arts, and their understanding of martial arts is not deep enough.

Indeed, this intermediary type has proven to be neither here nor there; their combat power in the Qi Refinement Realm may be decent, but their prospects for advancement are limited. It’s considered exceptional if they reach the Dust-Free Realm, and progressing beyond that is almost out of the question.

Many Innate Experts cannot cross the threshold of the Qi Refinement Realm. One reason is a lack of solid foundational skills, and another is that they are generally too old, having missed the optimal period for cultivation.

In today’s Mortal Realm, Innate below forty years of age are considered young, and those below thirty are called prodigies.

Take a look at the ranks of cultivators; how many are over thirty and have not entered the Qi Refinement Realm? Those who can’t enter it by twenty-five are typically seen as utterly useless.

Sister Yu and the second young master Changqing, who was on the seventh layer of mortal shedding at eighteen, would only be considered average.

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So when Innate Experts began the path of cultivation, theoretically the threshold wasn’t high, but in reality, if you take a look at Donghua Country’s Innate Experts, you’ll know that if they could cultivate to become immortals, they would have all rushed to do so. Why would they choose to stay in the Mortal Realm?

Of course, there are Innate Experts who embark on the path of cultivation, and there are more of them than those who seek to attain enlightenment through martial arts. However, that often involves the consumption of considerable favors, and there’s a high chance they might end up neither here nor there in the end.

The “Chaos Sky Swallowing Technique” that the Gu Family had gathered is exactly the technique that pushes an Innate Expert over the threshold into the realm of cultivators.

This technique ignores the past and doesn’t care if you are a legitimate cultivator or not, nor does it care if you were a fire, water, or thunder cultivator before—all of these are detailed classifications of cultivators in the phase before shedding their mortal bodies.

For example, Yu Changqing, with her abundant wood attribute Innate energy and corresponding wood attribute techniques available on the Wuyou Platform, practiced these and found them suitable as she entered the Qi Refinement Realm. The wood attribute techniques remained appropriate for her.

However, the Devouring Primordial Heaven Technique has no attributes, nor does it concern itself with what attributes you practiced before, even if it’s the extreme attribute of a “Martial Cultivator.”

So, with the Gu Family having such a technique and having produced quite a few Innate Experts over time, why haven’t any become cultivators?

Because this technique has its requirements, it can be practiced by those under twenty-seven. Once you pass twenty-seven, it’s no longer viable.

This requirement is not too harsh. In a typical Immortal Sect, if you don’t start Qi cultivation by twenty-five, they’d tell you to get lost—cultivation consumes far more resources, and there’s no room for waste.

But for a Martial Cultivator, achieving Innate status before the age of twenty-seven also comes with a title. Called a demon genius if done before thirty, and a prodigy if before twenty-seven!

Feng Jun wasn’t very clear about whether the Gu Family had ever produced such prodigies, but he believed that even if there were, they were very few and far between.

Besides, this technique has another demanding aspect: the requirement of “Devouring Heaven.”

This practice consumes a huge amount of Spiritual Energy. To break into the Qi Refinement Realm, one must first prepare twenty-seven Spirit Stones and arrange them into a “Heaven-Swallowing Formation.” The practitioner sits in the middle of the formation, absorbs and exhales Spiritual Energy, and breaks through the threshold of the Qi Refinement Realm.

An Innate Expert at twenty-seven, with twenty-seven Spirit Stones…

Feng Jun pondered, guessing that the ancestors of the Gu Family who first acquired this technique might have had a few choice words to say about it?

But for him, this technique… was quite nice, wasn’t it? Very considerate?

At this point, he put down the book and thought, I’m definitely not yet twenty-seven, but shuttling between two planes… I’ve probably added on quite a few years. First, to figure out exactly how many.

After careful calculation, he felt that he was probably close to twenty-six.

But that left him with just over a year, which was quite tight.

And these Spirit Stones… didn’t seem to be in abundant supply. He’d need to consider securing more stock.

For the following period, overcome with excitement, he kept reading the “Chaos Sky Swallowing Technique,” continuously analyzing its viability.

This technique was indeed most suitable for Innate Experts because the process of absorbing and exhaling Spiritual Energy brings a tremendous burden to the human body. Nine out of ten cultivators who don’t focus on physical cultivation in the phase of shedding their mortal coils probably couldn’t withstand it.

In fact, how many cultivators who’ve managed to reach the full potential of the phase before shedding their mortal coils lack that final step? They all basically have a corresponding technique for the Qi Refinement Realm; otherwise, what’s the point of cultivating to become an immortal?

When Feng Jun finally calmed down, he realized that it was already daylight.

He stepped out into the courtyard to have a look and found that aside from those on duty, everyone was still asleep; indeed, the celebration had gone on late the previous night.

He went back into the room and picked up the “Basic Talisman Script Introduction” to read, but it wasn’t long before he felt drowsy.

However, having just exchanged so many precious items in this plane, he definitely couldn’t sleep here… Earth was still a bit safer.

After a good sleep back on Earth Realm, it was already afternoon when he woke up. He took a walk around the estate to check the topography.

Back in the Mobile Phone plane, once everyone else awoke and those who were leaving had left, those remaining began the grand task of divvying up the spoils.

Wealth is something that can never be divided to everyone’s satisfaction, and even with Feng Jun, who passed as nearly an Immortal, overseeing the process, each faction’s leaders might not have spoken out loud but were definitely grumbling in their hearts: Damn it, seems like my family is getting the short end of the stick…

However, some didn’t fuss over such things, like Deng Yifu, the head of the escort agency, for instance.

This venture to surround and annihilate the people of the Gu Family resulted in severe injury to a distant relative Deng brought along and minor injuries to himself, but his gains were substantial. If he didn’t consider rejuvenating himself for a second spring and siring a few more children to raise, what he had was enough for a comfortable retirement.

What he cared about most were the fates of his two sons under the guidance of the Divine Doctor and how far they could go.

So he discussed with Lang Zhen and proposed that the controversial part of the wealth be put into a prize pool?

The downfall of the Gu Family was a fact, but the worldwide pursuit of the remaining Gu renegades was just beginning…

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