Chapter 188 - 186: The Fierce Beast’s Mental Will
"Celestial Essence Body Refining Technique..."
This is the name of this secret technique, although practiced by powerhouses under the Ghost Blade Sect, this secret technique originates from Ancient Abyss Country and, strictly speaking, is not an orthodox martial art of the Ghost Blade Faction.
Song Changming immediately began to peruse it.
The content of the whole secret technique is not much. As Zhuji Pavilion mentioned, its mysteries are not ordinary, but indeed, it doesn’t require much comprehension to quickly grasp the cultivation method of this technique.
Simply put, it can be summarized in one word.
Eat!
Consume those beast blood and beast flesh that contain powerful energy, then rely on spiritual power through the unique technique of the secret art to refine the energy within this beast blood and flesh, turning it into streams of the purest blood and flesh essence qi.
Rely on these blood and flesh essences to further temper and refine the body.
This seems no different from the usual process of eating and digesting, but the extraction and conversion rate of high-level energy through digestion and absorption is indeed too weak.
The method of this secret technique is to ignore the body’s tolerance mechanism, infinitely magnifying the extraction of blood and flesh energy, bypassing the gentle digestion and absorption process, and directly using spiritual power to guide, conducting a more violent refining method.
Theoretically, the stronger the blood and flesh energy consumed, the better the effect of extracting blood and flesh essence to refine himself.
As long as the refining doesn’t stop, his physical body can infinitely strengthen!
But during the process of spiritual power refining the blood and flesh essence, it is also quite easy to be counter-attacked by the powerful energy within the blood and flesh, which is also the key that affects the cultivator’s temperament.
Simply put, the mental state is prone to issues.
"Let’s try it." Song Changming flipped through it repeatedly for a long time and finally made a decision.
With the current strength of his body, he needs this set of secret techniques to continue to refine and further develop his bodily traits.
Since it’s needed, then attempt it!
What Zhuji Pavilion said wasn’t false; mastering this technique is not hard.
Song Changming took only two days to incorporate this body refining secret technique into his panel.
And spent about a month, guiding the operation of spiritual power, fully mastering a section of experience value.
The secret technique has no level of realm, mastering it is enough.
Then, it’s about the eating...
With past body refinement, Song Changming consumed precious mountain ginseng and top-grade medicinal herbs, using natural medicinal power with body refining skills to gently enhance the body.
Now, he needs to eat the blood and flesh of fierce beasts and predatory birds, refining the blood and flesh essence, tempering his entire body.
The former is a slow simmer; the latter is a quick reduction...
Soon, Song Changming bought a variety of fresh fierce beast flesh in the city.
Believing that the stronger the fierce beast, the more abundant the flesh energy provided; the quality of the fierce beast meat he bought this time was extremely top-grade, costing him hundreds of silver coins for just a few dozen pounds.
Following the annotations of the secret technique, simply skim the flesh quickly with high heat to remove some energy impurities, and then it can be consumed directly, ensuring the energy of the flesh is not excessively lost, while the process of refining and removing impurities won’t be too laborious.
The taste is just a bit rough...
A hearty meal, down went ten pounds of flesh!
Then began the initial practice of the Celestial Essence Secret Technique.
Through introspection, spiritual power is mobilized to start drawing the energy from those ten pounds of flesh according to the refining technique of the secret art.
And as his spiritual power touched that portion of flesh energy, he immediately felt a fierce and wild aura.
In the Nether Sea, a golden tiger emerged fiercely pouncing at his spiritual body!
In reality, Song Changming subconsciously paused his breathing.
If this fierce tiger appeared in reality, it might not make him so nervous, but appearing in his Nether Sea, attacking both his Nether Sea and spiritual body, truly troubled him.
He tried to eradicate this tiger with spiritual power, but soon new tigers appeared, continuing to wreak havoc in his Nether Sea.
He knew this was an inevitable experience when extracting flesh energy.
This flesh energy contained the residual spiritual will of that tiger unless he severed the connection between spiritual power and the flesh energy, the invasion of this fierce beast’s spiritual will would persist.
Until he is completely mentally collapsed, obliterated of humanity, and completely assimilated!
This is the dangerous aspect of practicing this secret technique.
Song Changming truly felt why all who practiced this secret technique ended similarly...
In just a short moment, under the invasion of the fierce beast’s spiritual will, his mind was already unstable.
An uncontrollable surge of restlessness was growing in his heart...
If an enemy appeared in front of him now, he would not hesitate to use cruel means to kill the opponent directly!
Until all the fierce beast flesh energy was extracted and refined, turning into pure streams of blood and flesh essence, the roar of the tiger in the Nether Sea finally subsided and disappeared.
Song Changming exhaled a heavy gust, forcing himself to continue.
Extraction, peeling, refining, condensing essence energy, merging it into the entire body...
During this process, Song Changming felt as if his body was a large refining furnace, with food constantly dissolving inside.
When streams of cool blood and flesh essence circulated throughout his body, feedbacking everywhere, he felt a tingling sensation.
Through the introspection of spiritual power, Song Changming keenly observed his own changes and subtle differences.
Under the effect of this refined essence qi, the strength of his physical body has indeed increased!
It’s a pity that these ten pounds of fierce beast flesh, the converted blood and flesh essence is still somewhat lacking, and the final fortification effect is not ideal.
It is useful, but not much...
"Perhaps my current physical strength is too high, and even with these market-quality fierce beast flesh, the contained flesh energy hardly meets my enhancement needs..."
Song Changming opened his eyes, pondering to himself.
Therefore, for this secret technique’s practice method, obtaining high-quality, high-intensity fierce beast flesh is optimal.
If not, then quantity must compensate for quality.
Refining large amounts of relatively average-quality fierce beast flesh, although inefficient, still builds up over time and can slowly enhance his physique!
This is the precious aspect of this secret technique, no matter what, as long as it can refine essence qi that feedbacks to the body, it can strengthen his physique.
Body refinement cultivation never stagnates, there’s only a difference in speed!
And the only point that makes Song Changming feel troublesome is the side effect mentioned by the secret technique.
This indeed is quite bothersome.
Just from his initial practice, he had already felt discomfort.
The residual spiritual will of the fierce beast leaves him at a loss.
Currently, the only solution he can think of is to refine his spiritual power more, stabilize his mental state regularly, and control his emotional fluctuations.
"There might be other more effective methods... as long as this problem is resolved, this body refining secret technique can be practiced continuously..." Song Changming murmured.
After that, Song Changming refined all the remaining dozens of pounds of fierce beast flesh, the enhancement effect accumulated, only then becoming slightly noticeable.
An increase of about one or two pounds of qi power...
And upon the completion of the refinement, his spiritual power was indeed heavily consumed, in addition to some headaches, presumably the result of frequent assaults by the fierce beast’s spiritual will.
"Inner qi cultivation requires spiritual power, refining essence requires spiritual power, this spiritual power indeed seems insufficient..."
Song Changming massaged his forehead, got up, and walked out the door.
Outside the door.
Liu Dingsheng, Liu Ziwen, and others looked over.
"Changming..."
"What is it?" Song Changming asked, noticing their peculiar expressions.
"Brother Song." Song Ping’an handed a mirror to Song Changming.
Song Changming took a look and noticed immediately.
The reflection in the mirror showed a fierceness between his brows he didn’t usually have, and his eyes looked different as well.
Apparently caused by the secret technique.
No wonder Liu Dingsheng and others looked at him with concern.
"Brother Song, maybe it’s better not to practice this secret technique, it’s quite frightening..." Song Ping’an stammered.
Compared to the fierce version of Song Changming, he preferred the easygoing and uncompetitive Song Changming of the past.
Afraid that one day, his good brother might completely turn dark.
Previously about this secret technique, and the fates of those who practiced it, he had heard as well.
His concern is quite normal, and the concern of Liu Dingsheng and others is no less than his.
"I’m fine." Song Changming shook his head after putting down the mirror.
Besides having a slight headache, he indeed felt fine.
The ferocious color in his eyes was just a residual negative impact of the fierce beast’s spiritual will left in his Nether Sea.
As his spiritual power recovers, and time passes, it will eventually fade.
Currently, it’s just the initial cultivation of this secret technique, far from altering his character or obliterating his humanity.
However, if continued like this, it remains a problem to be addressed.