Demon Slaying, Gaining 60 Years of Cultivation From the Start
Chapter 1035 - 99: Sacred Body Refining Object, Xuanhuang Mother Qi (Three updates of ten thousand words, please subscribe!)

The cultivation of monks is actually a process of continuously enhancing one's essence, energy, and spirit, transforming quantitatively into qualitative changes, thereby elevating the origin of life and breaking through one level of existence after another, transforming oneself.

Among essence, energy, and spirit, essence refers to the physical body, energy refers to cultivation level, and spirit naturally refers to the Yuan spirit.

As stated by the Holy Maiden of Taoxu Road, Chu Yue Ling, in the ancient ages, long before many great eras, predecessors had divided the path of the physical body and the Yuan spirit into four realms each, to provide cultivators with a clearer vision of the path they were to face.

The nascent realm, Star-pointing Realm, Sun God Realm, and Unification Realm—these are the four stages of division for the Yuan spirit path.

At this moment, Gu Chen came back to his senses and asked, "If that's the case, what are the four realms of the physical body then?"

Chu Yue Ling, with her flowing black hair and flawless jade-like face, like the most perfect masterpiece of the heavens, without the slightest flaw from head to toe, softly opened her mouth and said, "The path of physical cultivation is profound and vast. However, due to the extreme hardness and difficulty of physical cultivation, there have been progressively fewer practitioners until now. And to achieve great success in physical cultivation, the first step required is bodily reconstruction."

"Bodily reconstruction?" Gu Chen's heart stirred upon hearing this, because not long ago, he had just experienced such a transformation.

"Exactly," the Holy Maiden of Taoxu Road, Chu Yue Ling, nodded lightly and said, "Bodily reconstruction allows one's body to complete the most primal transformation. It's extremely dangerous as it requires one to completely annihilate oneself, leaving only a trace of true spirit and origin unscattered, and then reassemble. It can be said that each bodily reconstruction is a rebirth for a cultivator, bringing immense benefits."

This point, having personally experienced it, Gu Chen was very clear. He asked, "What happens after bodily reconstruction?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Yue Ling slightly parted her lips and said just eight characters: "Nine bodily revolutions, can achieve Heaven-Derived."

"Nine bodily revolutions?" Gu Chen was stunned—was he expected to undergo bodily reconstruction nine times?

Immediately, the words of Chu Yue Ling confirmed Gu Chen's thoughts: only through nine destructions and rebirths of the body could this realm truly be considered complete.

At this moment, Gu Chen couldn't help but feel a shock to his spirit. The destruction of the body once was akin to a life-and-death trial; had he not penetrated the divine reserves of his body and had the seeds of heaven within him, it wouldn't have been so easy to successfully pass through.

It was already so difficult once, let alone nine times.

However, although the risks were substantial, the gains corresponded equally, as each shattering of the body was equivalent to an ascension of one's origin, bringing immense benefits to the cultivator.

This point, Gu Chen also had a deep understanding.

"After nine bodily revolutions, is it then the so-called Heaven-Derived Battle Body?" Gu Chen murmured; this was the second realm of the physical levels.

At this time, Chu Yue Ling spoke up and said, "Once the Heaven-Derived Battle Body is perfected, one will experience the sanctification of the physique, reaching a level where, with the physique alone, one can contend with the Great Powers."

Upon hearing this, Gu Chen's eyes suddenly sharpened.

"As for the final realm of physical cultivation, it is called a realm unto oneself, or one could also call it the physical becoming a realm." As she spoke, Chu Yue Ling gave Gu Chen a deep look.

Because initially, in the lower realms, he had been judged to possess the potential for the physique to become a realm, evidenced by the deity seated within his aperture.

And only beings with such potential could have the hope of bringing their physical cultivation to such a level.

According to this Holy Maiden of Taoxu Road, these four realms represent the ancient practices of physical cultivation. However, physical cultivation itself is incredibly tough, not only requiring top-level talent but more importantly, unremitting patience and various fortuitous assists to have a sliver of hope for success.

Therefore, even now, basically, those who have an understanding of these four realms of the physical body are few, even in the upper realms. And as Taoxu Road is an immortal-level Dao tradition and Chu Yue Ling is a Holy Maiden, it is natural for her to know these many secrets.

Like the Sun Divine Sparrow Clan, Kui Niu Clan, Azure Luan Clan, or Zifu School, Sword Hiding Mansion, and Mount Luo among other forces, even if they have Great Powers within them, Yan Qi and the others also do not know these secrets.

These Great Powers might know, but the reason they haven't informed these younger geniuses is simply that they do not have the hope to achieve it.

The realm of the Yuan spirit is similar in secrecy, or perhaps because there are few beings capable of achieving it, even those who dominate a domain and rank at the top of the realm's gold list can't manage it.

Only those with the potential to ascend the Dao Gold List, or those who have already done so, can hope to achieve this.

Chu Yue Ling's clear and bright eyes looked unintentionally at Gu Chen and said, "It is said, beings with the potential for the physique to become a realm, if they embark on the path of physical cultivation, have an even greater chance to unlock the divine reserves of the body early, digging out the deepest potential within themselves. At that time, earth-shattering divine abilities will be unleashed, unmatched by any other beings, and if they do not fall midway, their achievements will also be incomparable."

Before Gu Chen could even speak, she continued, "Furthermore, after undergoing bodily reconstruction three times, part of the laws' forces will imprint deep within the muscles. At that time, every drop of blood will manifest divine patterns."

As per what Chu Yue Ling had said, through conventional cultivation, only those who reached the level of Great Powers could forge such a Dao body, with cosmic patterns engraved within their physique.

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