Rebirth of a Quasi-Immortal Spirit

In the days that followed, Gao Zhun and the others stopped thinking about the secret realm outside, where others might fight tooth and nail for a few Enlightenment Fruits. Instead, they focused on receiving the inheritance in their minds.

All those present were rare geniuses, each with exceptional comprehension. Apart from a few points that contradicted the mainstream of the current cultivation world and required them to consult with Wuya Mozun, they almost all solved problems on their own. Three years later, in the Xuan Palace, the last person—A Zhong—had also completely digested the inheritance given by Wuya Mozun.

The main reason why Ah Zhong was slower than Gao Zhun and the others was that he missed the golden period of cultivation. Although being over a hundred years old is nothing to a cultivator, he was indeed considered old in front of a group of juniors who were no more than thirty years old.

Wuya Mozun was very satisfied with the comprehension of these younger generation members. According to the ratio of one year in the secret realm to one day in the outside world, only three days had passed in the outside world. Therefore, Gao Zhun and the others did not intend to leave the Xuan Palace. Although the spiritual energy inside could not support their cultivation, if they went out, there would be no safe place for them to study the Dao for a long time. Moreover, there was a senior with the cultivation level of True God guiding them here. Why would they go out?

Are we going to compete with those Nascent Soul stage cultivators for the opportunity to obtain the Enlightenment Fruit?

Everyone present was intelligent, and no one would do something foolish like picking up a sesame seed and losing a watermelon. Therefore, even though everyone had fully comprehended Wuya Mozun's legacy, they still showed no intention of leaving. Wuya Mozun saw all this but pretended not to see it and did not chase them away, simply prolonging this opportunity.

On that day, Gao Zhun and nine others, along with a wisp of remnant soul left behind by the true god Wu Ya Mo Zun, a total of eleven people, sat together and discussed intensely a cultivation technique that was present in all of their inheritances but had been lost throughout the entire living world, and even the immortal realm—the "Nourishing Essence Method."

Although the "Nourishing Essence Method" is a cultivation technique that assists in cultivation, according to Wu Ya Mo Zun, it is the only technique that can assist cultivators on the Immortal Spirit Continent to advance to the level of True God or even higher through cultivation. The loss of this technique indirectly indicates that since the great war in ancient times, only one person on the Immortal Spirit Continent has become a god.

Based on the calculation that the lifespan of a Foundation Establishment cultivator is 300 years, a Golden Core cultivator 800 years, a Nascent Soul cultivator 3000 years, and above that, the lifespan of a Nascent Soul cultivator doubles with each advancement to the next level: Divine Transformation, Body Integration, Mahayana, Tribulation Transcending, Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, Profound Immortal, Golden Immortal, Great Luo Golden Immortal, Nine Heavens Profound Immortal, Luo Heaven Upper Immortal, Immortal Lord, and Immortal Emperor. The longest-lived Immortal Emperor has a lifespan of only 24.576 million years. It seems like a long time, but tens of millions of years have passed since that battle, which is more than 100 million years. Even the Immortal Emperor has been replaced more than four times.

More than 20 million years of wasted time, still unable to take that final step and become a true god. One can imagine how frustrated those supreme beings of the immortal realm must have been. They probably couldn't rest in peace until the day their lifespan was exhausted. Not to mention the various accidents that cultivators encounter on their path to immortality. How many cultivators actually exhaust their lifespan and die peacefully in their old age?

The inheritance called "Nourishing Essence Method" in Gao Zhun and the others' minds tells everyone that becoming a true god is no longer a dream. However, the cultivation method of this auxiliary cultivation technique is not so easy for people to accept. At least, apart from Gao Zhun and Ah Zhong, who have been exposed to Earth knowledge, and Wu Ya Mo Zun, who has been cultivating all the way and is used to it, the rest of them are somewhat unable to accept it.

That's why this heated debate happened.

So, what exactly is this "Method of Nourishing Essence"?

It turns out that the "Nourishing Essence Method" is an inherent bloodline inheritance of Wuya Mozun and others who were conceived from the remains of the former God Emperor. Apart from the original God Emperor's mount, the Demon Saint, and all the primordial beasts that existed at the beginning of the formation of the Immortal Spirit Continent, all the humans, demons, monsters, and even the high and mighty divine beasts were formed by borrowing the essence and blood of the God Emperor.

The word "essence" in this "Method of Nourishing Essence" refers to essence and blood.

To expect them to accept the fact that humans, demons, and monsters are of the same origin from the very beginning is incredibly difficult, even for those who are not stubborn and conservative. Moreover, the cultivation method in the "Nourishing Essence Method" actually requires them to release their own life essence and blood to strengthen themselves by devouring the life essence and blood of demons and monsters. In their eyes, such a cultivation method is no different from evil cultivation. How could a group of upright and righteous young cultivators really do such a thing?

Unlike Wu Ya Mozun, who was shocked and puzzled by the crowd's reaction, Gao Zhun and A Zhong had already anticipated this. Gao Zhun even shook his head and sighed, "Human cultivators can use materials from demons to forge weapons, refine pills from demon cores, cook with demon meat, and make talismans from demon blood. Why can't they use demon essence and blood to strengthen themselves? It's just a method. Moreover, in my opinion, although humans are blessed with natural advantages, they are merely the most intelligent of all beings. If they were to stand in front of divine beasts, even we would experience a bloodline suppression..."

Before Gao Zhun could finish speaking, Yun Mu Ning coldly interrupted him. Everyone here had some degree of acquaintance with Gao Zhun, and although their expressions were unpleasant, no one dared to refute him. But she was different; she felt uncomfortable and naturally had to say something.

"Does Fellow Daoist Gao mean that we look down on demonic beasts and are unwilling to defile ourselves with their essence and blood?"

Yun Mu Ning's words were undeniably impulsive. Even Gao Zhun, the person directly involved, knowing full well that he didn't mean it that way, was still afraid that others would misinterpret her words in the same way.

Fortunately, as soon as Yun Mu Ning spoke, Wu Ya Qiu Bai reprimanded her, "Xiao Ning, that's enough. Xiao Zhun didn't mean that."

Seeing that Wu Yaqiubai had scolded her, Yun Muning realized that she had misunderstood, but she was not willing to give in easily. So she snorted and her expression improved a lot, without the initial anger.

Seeing this, Gao Zhun looked at Wu Yaqiu Bai with gratitude, but he was at a loss as to how to change the minds of the others.

As for Wuya Mozun, this shrewd man who has lived in the world for tens of thousands of years, he rolled his eyes and, without any storage devices on his body, took out a huge mass of essence blood from somewhere.

As soon as the essence blood was released, everyone felt a strong bloodline suppression emanating from it, as if they, living beings, were inferior in the face of this essence blood, and the two were not even in the same league.

Wu Ya Mozun observed everyone's reactions and smiled inwardly, but his face remained solemn, maintaining his aloof demeanor as a peerless master. He said coldly, "This is the essence blood of an ancient Kunpeng. Back then, to kill this Kunpeng, whose cultivation was comparable to mine, I faced a near-death experience. Who knew that I would die before even using it..."

Wu Ya Mozun's eyes dimmed for a moment, but quickly returned to normal. He continued, "Now it's you juniors who benefit."

As he spoke, disregarding everyone's objections, he divided the Kunpeng essence blood in his hand into ten equal portions and presented each portion to everyone. Faced with this essence blood ball, which was still about the size of four of their heads even after being divided, everyone swallowed hard and secretly examined their own essence blood balls, which were only the size of bullets, condensed according to the initial formula of the "Nourishing Essence Method." They instantly felt ashamed of their own small size and looked at the essence blood ball in front of them with a more solemn expression.

"Kunpeng's essence blood is invincible. According to your cultivation level, even a drop of essence blood would have to be divided into a hundred parts before you could use the 'Essence Nourishing Method' to make it your own. It would take ten days to condense the first one hundredth of the essence blood. And your current cultivation level is at most the mid-Nascent Soul stage. In other words, you can at most condense the essence blood in your body to the mid-Spirit Division stage."

"The benefits of the 'Nourishing Essence Method' are reflected here. When your own essence and blood reach a level higher than your own, you are essentially entering the Nascent Soul stage one step ahead in everything except cultivation. Whether it is divine sense, soul strength, or physical strength, they are incomparable. Even comprehension and affinity with the Heavenly Dao are the same. I don't need to tell you what will happen after that."

Wu Ya Mo Zun, as expected of a shrewd person who has lived for a long time, has a thorough understanding of everyone's psychology. In fact, what everyone is rejecting is just that they can't get over their own mental barrier and are unwilling to use any means to become stronger. Since that's the case, he will make some contributions first, as another greeting gift for these juniors. With such legitimate blood essence, he thinks these juniors will not refuse.

As for these juniors experiencing the benefits of the "Nourishing Essence Method" and using up all the essence blood he gave them, he wasn't afraid that they wouldn't act like he had before, fighting against divine beasts of similar cultivation levels for essence blood. However, the Kunpeng essence blood, divided into ten parts, was not something these juniors could use up in a short time.

"The Kunpeng essence blood can be stored directly in ordinary storage containers. I believe that before long, what you will want to improve is your cultivation level. Only by increasing your cultivation level can you absorb more essence blood. Of course, absorbing essence blood will also be of great benefit to your cultivation advancement."

After saying that, Wu Ya Mozun's figure flickered and disappeared from everyone's sight.

The remaining ten people looked at each other in silence. Gao Zhun and A Zhong pondered for a while, then took out a drop from their respective blood essence clumps. Following Wu Ya Mo Zun's instructions, they divided their blood essence clumps into one hundred parts, then forced their blood essence clumps out and fused them into the one percent of blood essence they had divided.

With Gao Zhun and A Zhong as role models, the other eight people gradually steeled themselves and began to act according to the instructions of the "Method of Nourishing Essence."