Eternal Life: I Can Control My Essence Qi-Chapter 86: Acquiring a Top Level Technique

For the remaining half month, Zhang Yao was extremely careful, cautious, and fortunately nothing unexpected happened, allowing him to pass it peacefully.

In the deep night after half a month, Zhang Yao put on a black cloak, donned an iron mask, and entered the ruins marketplace once again.

After more than an hour, in the third underground hall, Zhang Yao sat before a table, placed a number plate, feeling a bit uneasy.

"Please don’t let anything unexpected happen, or all my risks will be in vain..."

Just as the thought crossed his mind, Jiang Rou’s figure appeared before him, pulling out a chair to sit down.

Instantly, Zhang Yao felt invigorated, leaning slightly forward, he asked in a hoarse voice:

"Did you bring the item?"

"Hmm."

Jiang Rou’s tone seemed to carry a hint of fatigue, she spoke slowly:

"I have imprinted some content of the ’Scripture of All Transformations and True Nature’ into a jade scroll to facilitate verification of its authenticity."

"Once you’ve verified it, our transaction will be settled."

As she spoke, she took out a white jade scroll from a storage bag and handed it over.

"Alright!"

Zhang Yao nodded in agreement, solemnly accepting the jade scroll, infusing it with magical power, immediately a segment of information surged forth.

"Heaven embraces its changes, Earth accepts its grace... Array Refining Body, the body becomes manifold... profound method of the Dao, endless evolution..."

There were only a few hundred words of content, and Zhang Yao read each word and sentence attentively, almost instantly falling into a trance.

The cultivation content Jiang Rou selected included half of the general outline, and the rest were specific cultivation techniques chosen randomly, appearing chaotic.

But even with these chaotic contents, Zhang Yao was captivated, as if opening a completely new gateway for him.

"Array Refining Body... In this world, there’s actually such a cultivation technique, such a cultivation path."

"So this is the top level technique... Truly worthy of its name..."

It was only after a while that Zhang Yao gradually regained his composure, and his heart remained restless.

Even the brief excerpts from the ’Scripture of All Transformations and True Nature’ were brilliant, unparalleled in their mystery, surpassing his ’Thick Earth Spell’ by a hundred times!

This truly is the step to reach the heavens, the gateway to the Great Dao!

"Wow!"

With a wave of his sleeve, a small, earth-yellow seal appeared on the table in front.

"The technique is solid."

"This is the earth-attributed high grade magical artifact ’Nine Mountains Seal’."

Zhang Yao spoke, pushing the earth-yellow seal over, signifying:

"You can inspect it."

He could basically confirm that Jiang Rou’s ’Scripture of All Transformations and True Nature’ should be genuine, given her cultivation, she couldn’t fabricate such profound content even if she wanted to.

Yet how this long lost top level technique ended up in Jiang Rou’s hands remained a mystery, likely a story full of intrigue and twists.

"No problem."

After Jiang Rou checked the ’Nine Mountains Seal’, she decisively took out another jade scroll and handed it to Zhang Yao.

Zhang Yao reached out to receive it, infused it with magical power, briefly swept his thoughts over it, and then exhaled deeply, feeling a bit more relaxed.

The top level technique he had been contemplating and striving for over the years was finally in his grasp!

"Wait!"

Seeing Jiang Rou about to get up and leave, he suddenly called her back and took out a stack of talismans.

"You are..."

Jiang Rou was momentarily taken aback, somewhat puzzled.

"It’s an additional gift, not worth too many spirit stones, but since they’re middle-level talismans, they might come in handy."

Zhang Yao explained briefly, gesturing:

"Take them, after all it’s a top level technique, this time I got the better deal, consider it a bit of compensation."

Jiang Rou remained silent.

After standing stiff for a few breaths, she reached out to receive them, murmuring:

"...Thank you."

After leaving just two words, she hurriedly turned and left.

Once she left, Zhang Yao carefully stored the jade scroll, immediately got up, and exited the ruins marketplace, returning to his residence.

"It’s a pity during curfew, otherwise I could have just left directly..."

Sitting on the bed, Zhang Yao felt a bit regretful.

During the night curfew, the grand array in Qingyun Marketplace was always vigilant, if he attempted to leave, it would alarm the marketplace’s enforcement team.

"Let’s first meticulously comprehend the ’Scripture of All Transformations and True Nature’."

Zhang Yao took out the jade scroll with the complete cultivation technique, infused it with magical power, and began to read through this top level technique.

The ’Scripture of All Transformations and True Nature’, a secret legacy left by the Five Elements Wanderer two thousand years ago, was not part of the orthodox cultivation paths, but rather an extremely rare branch of cultivation—the Path of Array Refining and Body Integration.

Cultivators practicing the array refining technique are referred to as "Celestial Masters," much rarer compared to body cultivators, sword cultivators, pill cultivators, artifact cultivators, gu cultivators... and so on.

Cultivating Qi for immortality involves by ingesting and seizing the scattered spiritual qi in the world to refine into one’s own power;

The Xuanmen Grand Array involves appropriating and controlling the spiritual qi of mountain veins over a broader scope, transforming the power of the heavens and earth for personal use, therefore it can unleash power far exceeding that of cultivators.

Simply put—

The Immortal Array, in essence, functions somewhat like an enhanced super "Cultivator," only without its consciousness, unable to move, with many limitations, but absolute powerlessness is undeniable.

No cultivator can match the power of an array of the same grade, this is the iron rule!

Thus, among many seniors exploring the Immortal Dao, the thought arose—what if one could convert the power of a grand array into one’s own power, wouldn’t it render one invincible?

This is the Path of Array Refining and Body Integration’s initial conception and the core principle, the ultimate secret of this lineage!

"So this is how it is, so this is how it is..."

Zhang Yao’s heart surged with emotions, thoughts racing in his mind:

"Refining the Xuanmen Array into the body, using one’s own body as the carrier for the array, can endow the wielder with immense power, evolving endless profound methods."

"With every gesture, one can unleash the force comparable to hundreds, thousands, even ten thousand times that of a cultivator of the same level; who could possibly withstand them across the realm?!"

"If such a grand vision could truly be realized, even slaying a Golden Core during Qi Refining would be akin to chopping chickens and dogs!"

Of course, this is merely the grand vision and pursuit of the Array Refining Body lineage, essentially impossible.

The human body, a microcosm, possesses various mystiques, yet compared to the vast nature, falls short.

The potential of the human body is finite, the key lies in its very size of seven or eight feet; it cannot bear the majesty of mountain veins, a fundamental gap.

Thus, the solution of the preceding seniors lay in expanding oneself while compressing and simplifying the arrays, through continuous experimentation and fusion, gradually developing today’s path of Array Refining and Body Integration.

And the ’Scripture of All Transformations and True Nature’, as the fruit of the seniors’ efforts, truly deserves the title of top level technique.

During the Qi Refining Stage, the cultivator first needs to build three grand arrays within their body.

The first grand array, also the foundational entry to cultivation, is named the ’Five Elements Spirit Array,’ using the five organs as the base, following the secrets of the five directions and five elements, inscribing spirit patterns, constructing array veins, step by step completing the array’s formation.

After the formation is successful:

The speed of absorbing and refining spiritual qi increases fivefold, even if possessing the worst five attribute spirit root, the cultivation speed will be close to that of a celestial spirit root!

The strength of magical power is manifold in the same grade, whether in spellcasting or magical artifact activation, the power will soar accordingly, crushing cultivators of the same grade like stomping ants.

If cultivation speed isn’t fast enough, and cannot combat across ranks, how can it be deemed a top level technique?

"Such world-shattering divine skill, it deserves my expectations!"

Zhang Yao’s heart filled with joy, emanating immense aspiration:

"This is how the Five Elements Wanderer once dominated Da Li, possessing no equal with this ultimate profound method!"

"Climbing this ladder to the heavens, why not dare to ascend to the pinnacle of immortality?!"

PS: For the last day of the public version, let’s make it a triple update.