Fantasy: Immortality Begins with Absorbing Demons

Chapter 334 The Heaven-Mending Technique (Part 1)

This area has the most bookshelves on the entire second floor. They are filled with all sorts of incomplete and fragmented martial arts manuals.

Some of them were unintentional inspirations from our predecessors, left behind as experimental ideas that had not been verified.

Part of it consists of various incomplete martial arts techniques acquired by the disciples of Jingtian Manor over the years through various means, such as fighting outside or purchasing from shops. Among them are quite a few unorthodox martial arts techniques.

Finally, there are some techniques that have been verified by disciples to be effective and powerful, but which are simply impossible to cultivate.

This area was set up purely within Jingtian Manor to broaden the disciples' horizons.

Just like the book Han Yi is holding: "Forging Techniques with Burning Stone Hammer".

Once this skill is successfully mastered, the entire body becomes as hard as steel, and the power becomes incredibly solid and condensed. When the attack is made, it will have a burning effect, making it insidious and scorching.

However, its cultivation method is extremely sinister and bizarre. One must come to the vicinity of the volcano, immerse oneself in it, ingest burning stones, and be hammered by raging fire in order to successfully cultivate.

Burning stone is a mineral with highly toxic and hallucinogenic properties. Ingesting it, especially inside a volcano, could result in death even if the poisoning doesn't kill the person; they could be burned to death.

Therefore, although this method is fast to cultivate and has good power, it is still classified as one that is impossible to cultivate successfully.

Han Yi quickly skimmed over books on attack and defense, specifically searching for books on how to repair one's foundation and increase one's total vital energy. Whether it was inspiration or speculation, unorthodox methods or incomplete cultivation techniques, he picked them all out.

Soon, a stack of books had piled up beside him, like a small mountain, numbering in the dozens. After confirming that these were all the relevant books, he picked them up, went to the table by the window, placed them down, and sat down.

A gentle breeze blew in from the second floor of the library, scattering some yellowed, sparse leaves through the windows and onto the pages of the books.

Outside the window, the tall, thin old trees swayed slightly at the tips of their trunks, looking somewhat forlorn. Summer had passed, autumn was approaching, and their time was running out.

Wow.

He examined the contents of each book, trying to find knowledge that he could use.

Gently turn the pages of the book and cover the scattered leaves.

Soon, he found several suitable cultivation methods based on his needs.

"The Heavenly Silkworm Transformation", "The Nirvana Pagoda", "The Great Technique of the Hundred Evil Bodies"...

The creative concepts, martial arts principles, and cultivation effects of these techniques all contain elements he wants to learn.

Without delay, he memorized the names of the martial arts manuals and headed straight for the counter on the second floor.

The books on the second-floor shelves of the library only contain general explanations and partial content; to obtain the complete books, one must spend gold to purchase them separately.

Just spending an hour browsing and selecting books on the second floor would consume a considerable amount of gold. Buying books also costs money. This library truly is a veritable golden house, so expensive it makes one's liver ache.

He dared not waste any time, and under the astonished gaze of the disciple behind the counter, he quickly recited a string of names.

This disciple probably had never seen anyone buy so many books at once, especially since they were all incomplete copies.

I don't know where this rich, foolish, and gullible person came from.

Han Yi had initially worried that he wouldn't have enough money, since martial arts manuals like these are never cheap, no matter where you are. Fortunately, perhaps because they were all incomplete copies, there was only one manual per floor. Or perhaps it was a discount for those with inner court disciple status at Jingtian Manor.

The copied manual only cost him half of the gold notes he had, which made him breathe a huge sigh of relief.

Without stopping, he quickly grabbed the manual and went downstairs, ready to go home and study it.

As I reached the top of the stairs, I returned the wooden plaque to Old Fu.

"Leaving so early today?" At the stairwell, Old Fu had somehow gotten hold of a plate of sweet and sour peanuts. He held chopsticks in his left hand and a small cup in his right, enjoying a sip of wine and a bite of food with great relish.

"I've found what I need. Let's go back and study it." Han Yi held up the book and gestured.

"Oh, I see..." Old Master Fu seemed a little disappointed. "You'll read more next time, kid. Don't worry, I'll keep watch for you and won't charge you extra." Disciples like Han Yi, who love reading, are truly rare these days.

"This..." Han Yi couldn't help but mutter to himself.

That old rascal, he's wicked, why didn't you say so sooner?

"Thank you, senior. I'll come again next time." He hesitated for a moment, then clasped his hands in a fist and bow.

"Alright, alright, stop calling me senior, just call me Old Fu. Go back now. You've got your mind on the book in your hand." Upon hearing Han Yi's address, Old Fu immediately glared and puffed out his beard.

Han Yi was both amused and exasperated. He turned around, picked up the book, and prepared to study it intently.

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Jingtianzhuang, by the Flower Lake.

The autumn wind is bleak, the lake is golden, fallen leaves fall into the lake and create ripples, and several flocks of wild geese cry out high above, echoing along the lakeside.

The lakeside pavilion has bat-shaped decorations on the corners of its eaves, with wind chimes hanging below, which tinkle softly in the breeze.

“If we take this book as the basis… it’s not right, it’s too wicked and goes against the right path…” Han Yi was sitting on a stone chair at the stone table in the waterside pavilion, deep in thought.

In the blink of an eye, another ten days or so have passed.

He immersed himself in reading and deducing feasible methods.

During this period, he visited the library several more times in order to find enough resources for his deductions.

The book "The Law of Delight" in his hand is one of them.

This is a cultivation technique that uses Yin to replenish Yang; in other words, it's a technique specifically for flower thieves. It seems to have been a trophy obtained by a senior member of Jingtian Manor when he went out to eliminate thieves.

Although this method is incomplete, with only the first and second levels, its martial arts concept is to increase one's own vital energy by absorbing the yin essence of women.

Han Yi, seeing that the concept was somewhat useful, spent money to buy a rubbing of it.

He actually taught more than just this one kind of martial art that had a touch of evil.

The term "evil path" doesn't necessarily refer to something that is evil and insidious; it's not something that only bad people would practice.

Rather, it refers to martial arts that differ from orthodox martial arts, taking crooked and unorthodox paths to achieve rapid strength through shortcuts.

This type of martial art does indeed offer shortcuts at the beginning, making it much faster to cultivate than orthodox martial arts. However, because the foundation is not solid, it will become increasingly difficult and dangerous step by step.

Many unorthodox martial arts only exert their power temporarily, completely deviating from the righteous path. If one were to follow their methods blindly, the fate of the practitioner would be predictable.

Fortunately, Han Yi didn't intend to use these martial arts techniques for cultivation, but rather to absorb their essence and build his own system. Therefore, he didn't care whether it was the righteous path or the evil path.

He would collect any imaginative ideas, ingenious concepts, or techniques that could enhance his thinking, and use them as references.

"The core of the cultivation technique I'm about to deduce must be increasing the total amount of vital energy in the human body..."

He pulled a book out of the pile of books, "The Four Methods of Dragon Hibernation".

The underlying principle of this practice is that a person is like a dragon in hibernation, who is put to the brink of death and then reborn. The whole body is buried in the earth, and as long as one's breath is not extinguished, one will sleep in winter and awaken with the spring thunder, thus achieving a complete transformation and a significant increase in vital energy.

However, it is clear that the creator of this technique only had a conjecture about it and had not verified it.

Actually, if you think about it even with your toes, it makes sense. A perfectly healthy person is buried alive in the ground, and then buried for a whole winter... By the time they're dug out, their body will probably be cold by now.

“With the core in place, the next step is to transform and increase the methods…” He pulled a book out of the pile, “Blood River Divine Mirror”.

"Blood River Divine Mirror," as the name suggests, is a kind of evil martial art. Its principle is similar to that of his previous Blood Plum Pad magic weapon, which has a bloodthirsty effect. It can absorb the blood of enemies and turn it into its own blood and energy.

Of course, very few people succeed in its cultivation process. It requires finding ninety-nine people of different blood types from different years and months, and injecting their blood into one's own body, one person per day. After one hundred days, the divine skill will be naturally formed.

Just finding someone born in one of the ninety-nine lunar years and months is already difficult, let alone having different blood types...

"In ancient times, there was a great tree called Chun, whose spring lasted eight thousand years and whose autumn lasted eight thousand years… I transformed into the great Chun, taking all things as my sustenance, transforming them for my own use, stimulating the potential of my meridians and internal organs, and achieving the effect of returning to my innate state…" He then pulled out a book titled "The Endless Mystery of Chun's Age."

The martial arts in this book are of extremely high artistic merit, visualizing the human body as a great tree, with the stomach and intestines as its root, absorbing external substances to achieve the effect of returning to one's innate state. Although the martial arts in this book are powerful, no one has ever mastered them, because each level requires the absorption and digestion of extremely rare and exotic beasts and treasures.

Those essential mythical beasts have been extinct for many years and have disappeared without a trace.

Even the creator of this martial art wanted to replace one of the ingredients with a highly poisonous Netherworld Spirit Mushroom to neutralize the toxins and absorb the essence. Unfortunately, this person was not the true Great Master Chun, and after consuming it, he ultimately bled from all seven orifices and died.

Then, Han Yi took out several more books from the pile. They were either incomplete copies, unorthodox martial arts manuals, or inspirational notes and speculations.

"I've figured it out pretty well, so... let's begin..." he thought to himself.

"panel."

Name: Han Yi (19/200)

[Realm]: Mid-stage Meridian Opening, Second-level Martial Master

[Martial Arts]: Qianyang Gong (Entry-level martial art, Qianyang Jin, characteristics: Rejuvenation, Evil-dispelling, Perfected Strength); Feilong Gong (Entry-level martial art, Youlong Jin, characteristics: Speed, Fire Poison, Ignition, Perfected Strength)

[Secret Technique]: Moon Concealment (Special Effect: Concealing Breath and Illusion); Reverse Scale Form (Special Effect: Strength Boost, Increased Speed, Enhanced Burst)

[Elemental Power Value]: 202

"Based on the *Chunling Xuanwujin*, with the *Jiaozhe Sifa* as its core and the *Xuehe Shenjian* as its method of qi and blood circulation... supplemented by the *Xuanyuan Gong*, *Jingxi Jue*, and *Zen Xisui Fa*..."

Very well, the panel suspended in mid-air, visible only to him, began to slowly blur.

Han Yi felt a wealth of knowledge and inspiration spontaneously activating in his mind, combining with various pieces of knowledge in his memory, constantly mixing and flipping, and generating countless new feasible ideas in the blink of an eye.

A gentle breeze blew by and then dispersed. Han Yi's aura fluctuated constantly, first powerful, then active, then dormant, and then suddenly soaring again, which was extremely strange.

Finally, he slowly sank into silence, like a stone by a lake.

In just a few dozen breaths, a short period of time had passed.

Han Yi slowly opened his closed eyes, and a sense of new life, like the beginning of spring, emanated from him.

[Unknown cultivation technique, ???]

[Deduction complete, consuming 100 Yuan Power Points]

A completely new knowledge framework suddenly appeared in Han Yi's mind.

"Heaven takes from the surplus and replenishes the deficiency... Man suffers loss..."

In the mental image, an old Taoist priest riding a crane appeared ethereal, soaring through the sky, seemingly muttering something to himself. "Since that's the case, what I want to remedy is the deficiency of innate vital energy, so let's call it the Heaven-Mending Technique."

With a thought, Han Yi slowly displayed the panel.

Name: Han Yi (19/200)

[Realm]: Mid-stage Meridian Opening, Second-level Martial Master

[Martial Arts]: Qianyang Gong (Entry-level martial art, Qianyang Jin, characteristics: Rejuvenation, Evil-dispelling, Perfected Strength); Feilong Gong (Entry-level martial art, Youlong Jin, characteristics: Speed, Fire Poison, Ignition, Perfected Strength)

[Secondary Skill]: Heaven-Mending Technique (Not yet mastered)

[Secret Technique]: Moon Concealment (Special Effect: Concealing Breath and Illusion); Reverse Scale Form (Special Effect: Strength Boost, Increased Speed, Enhanced Burst)

[Elemental Power Value]: 102

Unlike other martial arts, in his understanding, the Heaven-Mending Technique doesn't directly increase combat power, but rather repairs one's foundation, indirectly strengthening them. Therefore, Han Yi simply created a separate section on the panel to indicate its difference.

Auxiliary cultivation refers to cultivation manuals whose function is different from combat.

After categorizing the information in this way, the panel information will be clear and easy to understand, instead of being a jumbled mess.

"The Heaven-Mending Technique has nine levels... The first level strengthens the stomach wall, forming a network at the ends of meridians throughout the body... It requires the skin and flesh of the Void Pig's lower jaw as a catalyst..."

The Void Dolphin is a mythical beast that has long been extinct. It is said to have lived in the deep sea and possessed the strange ability to travel through space.

The Heaven-Mending Technique is based on the "Endless Mystery of the Spring Age," and each breakthrough requires various rare and exotic beasts as catalysts.

Therefore, even if Han Yi wrote this Heaven-Mending Technique and gave it to someone else to practice, that person wouldn't be able to cultivate it. Only he, with his control panel that allows him to ignore any dangerous obstacles and high-difficulty conditions, was able to successfully cultivate it.

He carefully recalled the contents of the Heaven-Mending Technique, hesitated for a moment, and then made up his mind to write it down in the Heaven-Mending Technique section.

The disciples of Jingtian Manor's inner courtyard must complete the first level of cultivation within a year; time is running out.

His gaze fell on the upgrade button behind the Heaven-Mending Technique, and he pointed at it with his mind.

The panel slowly blurred again.