Cultivation Begins From The Desert-Chapter 62: Qianyang Immortal Light

"Qianyang Immortal Scripture", created by a Tribulation Crossing True Immortal of great power, naturally comes with extraordinary divine techniques. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com

After getting started with the cultivation technique, Zhouyang immediately mastered the two divine techniques that came with it, namely "Qianyang Golden Light" and "Qianyang Celestial Sword".

"Qianyang Golden Light" can be used offensively and defensively. In attack mode, it can transform into countless needles of magical power to assault, suitable for dealing with large numbers of enemies with lower cultivation. Defensively, it can become a layer of protective golden light enveloping the whole body, providing defense against various types of attacks.

"Qianyang Celestial Sword", on the other hand, is a pure attack divine technique. This technique also has two uses: the first is to gather the gold element magical power within Zhouyang and deploy an indestructible Sharp Gold Sword; the second is to use his own "Qianyang True Flame" as a guide to gather the fire element magical power and forge a True Flame Sword.

Given Zhouyang’s current cultivation at the First-Layer Foundation Establishment, the defensive capability of "Qianyang Golden Light" is roughly equivalent to a Tier Three Lower Grade Defense Spell, while the attack power of "Qianyang Celestial Sword" is comparable to a Tier Three Middle Grade Spell. If he uses the "Qianyang True Flame" as a guide to unleash the True Flame Sword, its power matches that of a Tier Three Top Grade Spell.

However, while these two divine techniques are indeed useful, they have considerable limitations.

"Qianyang Golden Light" is more manageable; although it consumes a lot of magical power, as long as Zhouyang’s magical power can keep up, the light can be extinguished and rekindled at will, making it possible to use as a regular attack.

But "Qianyang Celestial Sword" has greater limitations. Every time this technique is used, Zhouyang must spend at least a year to "pregnant the sword" anew, relegating it to a trump card technique.

After completing the transfer of the cultivation technique, Zhouyang did not immediately leave seclusion but rather channeled his magical true essence into the "Qianyang Treasure Pearl" within his Dantian Qi Sea, activating the pearl’s only active divine technique, "Qianyang Immortal Light".

Upon activation of "Qianyang Immortal Light", Zhouyang’s body in the Haoyang Cave Seclusion Chamber emitted dazzling golden light from inside out. Were he not in a sealed chamber but outside, anyone witnessing this phenomenon would know he possessed an exotic treasure.

Yet Zhouyang clearly could not concern himself with these matters now, as he was astounded by the power of this divine technique after activating the "Qianyang Immortal Light".

It’s known that after undergoing "Spiritual Energy Infusion", a Foundation Establishment Cultivator’s physical constitution undergoes a reverse transformation. This transformation not only doubles the cultivator’s lifespan but also greatly enhances the body’s strength and significantly reduces various impurities within.

For instance, in terms of physical strength, even a newly established cultivator like Zhouyang, without using magical power for protection, can withstand an attack from a Tier One Demon Beast or a Tier One Artifact. His bones, if used for artifact refining, could at least create a Tier Two Spiritual Artifact.

In contrast, a Late-Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator like Zhou Minghan, after more than a hundred years at the Seventh Layer Foundation Establishment, would, despite not practicing any body-strengthening secret techniques, have a body strength that equals any Tier Two Lower Grade Spiritual Artifact due to years of magical power tempering.

However, now, after undergoing the tempering of "Qianyang Immortal Light", Zhouyang astonishingly discovered that his physical strength was rapidly increasing, and various normally undetectable impurities within his body, even residual erysipelas, were being evaporated as black smoke under the golden cleansing.

Meanwhile, his magical power was becoming more consolidated and pure under the golden tempering, and he realized that if this continued, in terms of magical power purity, he would not lose to any peers. This would have a positive impact on opening the Purple Mansion and condensing the Golden Core in the future.

An hour later, when Zhouyang, having exhausted his magical power and ended the immortal light’s body tempering, found that the effect of this one-hour session was even stronger than half a month of regular magical power body tempering.

This discovery shocked and delighted him, and he couldn’t help but exclaim, "It’s truly outrageous! No wonder the Tier Seven Immortal Artifact refined by a Tribulation Crossing True Immortal is worthy of being called an Immortal Artifact just for this divine technique!"

The cultivation realm also has cultivation techniques dedicated to enhancing a cultivator’s body; Zhouyang has seen several of these in the Zhou Family’s Scripture Cave.

However, those body-enhancing cultivation techniques require withstanding unbearable pain and must be pursued alongside a variety of spirit pills and spirit elixirs, making them only feasible for those with great willpower and wealth.

Consequently, although everyone in the cultivation realm knows the benefits of a strong body, very few are willing to spend the time and money to cultivate their bodies, usually only cultivators from great powers or some loose cultivators with no other path available.

Initially, Zhouyang was tempted by those body-enhancing cultivation techniques too, but considering his own spiritual root talent and financial status, he decided against pursuing them.

Others see the speed of his cultivation as comparable to a Top-grade Spiritual Root, but they don’t realize how diligently he cultivates. If he had overestimated himself and attempted those body-enhancing techniques, he might still be at the Late-Stage Qi Cultivation, let alone reaching Foundation Establishment.

And for a Late-Stage Qi Cultivation cultivator, even if they refine their body to resist artifacts of the same tier, could they block a sword attack from a Foundation Establishment cultivator?

Thus, in the cultivation realm, low-tier cultivators who pursue body-enhancing techniques are rare, almost one in ten thousand; the time would be better spent improving cultivation.

Only those in the Purple Mansion Stage or Golden Core Stage, due to their longevity and difficulty in making further breakthroughs in cultivation, begin to focus on enhancing their combat power through body refining and other methods.

But now everything is different for Zhouyang with the "Qianyang Immortal Light"!

Though Zhouyang still doesn’t know the limit of the physical enhancements achieved through "Qianyang Immortal Light", the effects already displayed far surpass all the body enhancement techniques owned by his Zhou Family.

From now on, he only needs to undergo "Qianyang Immortal Light" tempering for an hour each day, essentially granting him the benefits of a strong body-refining technique—without pain, danger, or side effects.

"And the effect of impurity removal is not limited to body refinements. Since the immortal light can purify bodily impurities and erysipelas, I can henceforth consume elixirs to improve my cultivation without the caution others must exercise. I can confidently use various spirit pills."

Zhouyang’s eyes sparkled with delight.

At his current age, he could have reached the Ninth-Layer Foundation Establishment before age two hundred, giving him a chance to advance to the Purple Mansion Stage.

Now, having discovered that "Qianyang Immortal Light" can help remove erysipelas, he feels confident that, as long as the elixir supply holds, he can reach the Ninth-Layer before one hundred fifty, allowing for a second attempt if the first attempt to advance to the Purple Mansion stage fails.

However, the Zhou Family currently lacks a Tier Three Alchemist, and Tier Three elixirs for enhancing the cultivation of Foundation Establishment cultivators are quite rare in the market. Trying to purchase these elixirs for cultivation will require considerable effort in the future.