Chapter 156 - Invincible Vajra
The constitution of those monsters was far greater than that of common human cultivators.
The palm attack that Lu Xuan had unleashed was called the “Crumbling Mountain,” a move capable of devastating force within an instant. When honed to the extreme, the force would be on par with its namesake—able to bring down a mountain with only a single strike.
Even though the power of that attack at the moment couldn’t compare to how strong it had been when Lu Xuan was in his pinnacle state, he was nonetheless easily able to clap down a Deity-level fighter with it, hard enough that the victim would have a hard time getting up.
Yet the rat king only rolled around for a moment before getting up again.
That rat king apparently had a good measure of intellectual capacity. Wariness could be seen in its huge eyes now. It had not been able to sense any threat from Lu Xuan before, which was why it had dared to attack. It intended to kill what it saw as a beast standing on two legs right where he stood.
The rat king had actually already killed dozens of people without anyone knowing, somehow managing to avoid causing a commotion in the human world. In its eyes, Lu Xuan was no different than the other humans it had killed.
However, the slap it had taken moments earlier had caused some damage, and wariness began to show in its eyes right away.
The rat king let out a low growl. Extremely dangerous and evil intentions were visible in its blood-colored eyes.
He simply kept making use of the Taixu Origin Power to absorb all the ambient spirit qi around him.
The spirit qi in the area was so thick that Lu Xuan was able to absorb to his heart’s content without having to worry about draining all of it.
He sent all the absorbed spirit qi throughout his entire body, strengthening every single cell.
A golden light began to glitter faintly on the surface of his body, making him look like he was made of gold.
That was the key to breaking through from Level Eight Deity level to Level Nine.
Level Nine of the nine-leveled cultivation system was called the “Invincible Vajra.”
At that level, things would differ from Level Eight Deity, not to mention all the levels that came before, in a fundamental manner.
In all the earlier cultivation stages, the cultivator still remained a mortal of flesh and blood at his core. The cultivator was unable to withstand bullet shots with his own body, requiring the use of Shields of Vigor to do so instead.
That was because they were still beings of flesh and blood. Regardless of how powerful they became, their bodies remained that of a mortal.
However, when a cultivator reached the Invincible Vajra level, things became entirely different. That level dealt mainly with strengthening the body in every single cell, enabling the body to transform on very fundamental levels.
That was the very first step of emerging past one’s mortality, and it established a solid foundation for continuing cultivation at further stages.
It was also the most important foundation. To cultivate was to wade through suffering, and the body was the vessel that allowed one to do so. The stronger one’s body became, the more capable one would be of making it through the storm.
A weak body was like a weak ship, one that a huge wave could easily strike down, and further cultivation would be a waste of time.
While there were people who were capable of embarking on other routes to continued training, even after their bodies had broken down altogether, all their methods were seen as heretical, making it near impossible to achieve greatness.