I Can Merge Techniques

Chapter 598: Chapter 170: Introducing Evil into the Body, Refining Evil into Gang; Inner Marrow Tempering, External Defense of Ten Thousand Techniques

This Evil Qi, potent enough to instantly destroy an ordinary person, is then channeled through a unique and perilous circulatory path within the meridians. Its destructive will is forcefully stripped away, and it is refined into a docile yet incredibly tough and dense Vajra Gang Qi.

This Gang Qi is then used to temper the physical body in return, like a blacksmith forging iron through a thousand hammerings and temperings.

Ultimately, it achieves a qualitative leap in one’s very essence of life!

During this time, Chu Fan had also learned from the Demon Suppression Bureau about several Desolate Lands containing Geng Metal Evil Qi and Earth Vein Flame Fiend Qi.

However, those places were extremely far from Qing Province City.

He was currently being watched by the Moon Worship Sect, and also by the Ghost Bone Elder.

To be cautious, Chu Fan planned to use the Vajra Subduing Demon Skill, along with Princess Zhaohua’s three Red Flame Stone Marrow Pills and the Bone-Burning Root from Xia Yao of the Fiery Sun Gang, to first advance his Vajra Undying Body to the second level before venturing out.

By then, even if he couldn’t defeat the Ghost Bone Elder, it wouldn’t be so easy for that old monster to kill him!

Chu Fan calmed his mind, the various profundities of the Vajra Subduing Demon Skill flashing through his thoughts.

This Cultivation Technique was tyrannical and ferocious. The cultivation process was like being in purgatory, filled with excruciating pain.

Without a rock-solid will, one could easily suffer a mental breakdown from the pain the moment the Evil Qi is drawn into the body. One might even suffer a backlash from the tyrannical will within the Evil Qi and degenerate into a monster that knows only slaughter and destruction.

This also explained why the Vajra Sect was so strict when recruiting disciples; their primary focus was on mental fortitude and perseverance.

As for the Blood Bone Sect, because they only possessed the second volume of the Cultivation Technique and didn’t understand the "Demon Suppression" Heart Method, their minds were overwhelmed by the Evil Qi as soon as they began cultivating, causing every member to fall into the Demon Dao.

With his eyes closed, the contents of the Secret Manual surfaced in Chu Fan’s mind. So, too, did the vast number of ancient texts he had read in the Library Pavilion using his status in the Demon Suppression Bureau after arriving in Qing Province.

Countless pieces of information on Body Refinement from Daoist, Buddhist, and Demon Dao schools intertwined, were compared, and settled in his mind.

He began to theoretically categorize this Cultivation Technique.

’If I compare the Vajra Subduing Demon Skill to Daoist Body Refinement...’

’Daoist Body Refinement emphasizes "purity and inaction, achieving the Saint of Flesh." It primarily involves gathering the gentle Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism, or it’s based on one’s own Inner Elixir Technique.’

’It follows the principle of "benefiting all things like water, without contention"—gradual, upright, and peaceful.’

’Although its potential is vast in the long run, it often lacks offensive capabilities in the early stages.’

’The Vajra Subduing Demon Skill, on the other hand, follows a path of absolute "action."’

’It doesn’t wait, nor does it let nature take its course.’

’It takes the initiative, plundering Evil Qi in pursuit of ultimate power and defense.’

’The process is fraught with peril, but the results are incredibly fast, and its style is extremely aggressive!’

’And if I compare it to Buddhist Body Refinement...’

’The Buddhist Sect also has Golden Bodies, like the Arhat’s Golden Body and the Bodhisattva Jade Bone, but those are often intrinsically linked to one’s Buddhist Cultivation and great vows.’

’They always speak of "protection" and "deliverance."’

’But the core of the Vajra Subduing Demon Skill can be summed up in two words: "Subjugation" and "Destruction"!’

’Because its power source is the Refinement of Evil Qi, this Gang Qi is inherently imbued with a trace of primal wildness and destructive force.’

’I will not grant you deliverance.’

’I will only destroy you!’

’This is the purest path of slaughter!’

’As for the differences with Demon Dao Body Refining Techniques...’

’This is where things get most confusing.’

’Demon Cultivation Techniques often overdraw one’s life force or cruelly devour the vital energy and resentment of living beings. Though progress is astonishingly fast, even allowing one to ascend to the heavens in a single step...’

’...their foundation is unstable, it’s extremely easy to lose one’s mind, and they ultimately become a slave to their power.’

’Although the Vajra Subduing Demon Skill also uses rampaging Evil Qi, and might even seem more demonic than the Demon Dao itself...’

’...its core is "Refinement," not "Devouring."’

’It emphasizes using one’s own iron will to command this rampant power.’

’I am the master; the power is the slave.’

’This is an open and honorable path of dominance, not a wicked path of opportunism.’

"HUUU..."

Chu Fan let out a long breath.

[Vajra Subduing Demon Skill Experience Points +1]

[Vajra Subduing Demon Skill Experience Points +1]

...

[Skill: Vajra Subduing Demon Skill (Perfection) Progress: (2335/3000) (Trait: None)]

Relying on his exceedingly high Comprehension of the Martial Dao, and leveraging the experience and insights gained from refining the Yin and Yang Two Volumes of the Vajra Subduing Demon Skill, he had managed to deduce this profound and unfathomable Cultivation Technique all the way to the Realm of Perfection in less than a month!

Although both the Vajra Sect and the Blood Bone Sect now possessed the complete Cultivation Technique, even the most talented among them would likely need eight to ten years to cultivate this Martial Art to Perfection!

But Chu Fan was not complacent.

He clenched his fist, feeling the power flowing just beneath his skin.

’The Cultivation Technique is one thing, and the physical body is another.’

Cultivating the technique to Perfection only meant that his understanding of the skill had reached a masterful level.

It meant that the efficiency of circulating the technique and the speed of refining Evil Qi had both reached their absolute peak.

It did not, however, mean that his physical strength had instantly ascended to the Realm of Perfection.

Body Refinement, by its very nature, is a long-term process, like water dripping through stone or gathering many small things to make something great.

It was like a master blacksmith who has grasped the ultimate forging technique; the iron in his hands still needs to be hammered, blow by blow, before it can finally be turned into a Divine Weapon.

Whether the Vajra Subduing Demon Skill was at Perfection or had achieved Breaking Limit, it only made the "hammer" in his hands heavier and the "furnace fire" hotter.

To truly achieve Great Success with the Vajra Undying Body still required a massive accumulation of resources and time.

To maximize the Body Refinement effects of the Vajra Subduing Demon Skill, one either needed a Body Tempering Pool passed down for a thousand years, like the one the Vajra Sect possessed;

or one needed to return to the technique’s source and find true "Evil Qi."

Chu Fan let out a heavy breath and stood up.

’Today, I’ll first achieve Breaking Limit for the Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step and the Moon Eclipse Arrow!’

He had a premonition...

With the help of the Red Flame Stone Marrow Pills and the Vajra Subduing Demon Skill...

...his Vajra Undying Body was about to break through its bottleneck and advance to the second level!

’Once the Vajra Undying Body reaches the second level...’

’I’ll first find that Ghost Bone Elder and kill him.’

’If I can’t find him, I’ll go to the Chaotic Stone Forest and use the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to devour his Demon Puppet Fierce Soul!’

’Then, I’ll head north of Qing Province City to that Desolate Land with the Earth Vein Flame Fiend Qi!’

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