Chapter 28
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Late at night, at the rear cliff of Qingyun Dao Sect.
At this moment, the scene of the universe emerged in Ye Ping’s mind.
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It was boundless and infinite.
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That was the heaven and earth in Ye Ping’s mind.
It was the universe since ancient times; it was infinitely large yet small.
The universe in Ye Ping’s heart was vast and boundless, but a sky-observing Godfiend appeared.
This Godfiend was not to be looked at, and it was emitting a horrifying aura. Even a single wisp of it would make the universe roar.
The body of the Godfiend seemed to be forged with divine iron that was indestructible. Standing in the middle of the universe, the Godfiend controlled the Dao and stepped on the five elements of Yin and Yang, looking at everything.
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That was the Great Dao Godfiend.
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Ye Ping was shocked.
He looked at the Godfiend in his heart, and countless mystical laws appeared in his mind in the blink of an eye.
It was the supreme technique to activate the Godfiend Body Tempering.
“Make heaven your hammer and earth your furnace. Take in everything and evolve.”
The ancient voice appeared in Ye Ping’s mind.
He had gained an epiphany of the complete edition of the Ancient Godfiend Body Tempering Technique.
An hour later, Ye Ping opened his eyes.
He already knew the cultivation method of the Ancient Godfiend Body Tempering Technique.
He had to look at the Godfiend with his heart, turn heaven and earth into a divine hammer and furnace, and then temper his body.
There were five realms of the Ancient Godfiend Body Tempering Technique.
Little Godfiend, Great Godfiend, Supreme Godfiend, Great Dao Godfiend, Great Dao Ancestor.
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Currently, Ye Ping was in the Little Godfiend realm and could reach perfection after tempering his body 81 times using heaven and earth, so as to condense the body of the Little Godfiend.
When he reached that realm, his body would be like that of the True Dragon and his vitality would be strong like the sun.
There were two key elements for the Ancient Godfiend Body Tempering Technique.
The first was to view the Godfiend with one’s heart. If the Godfiend Diagram did not appear in one’s mind, it would be impossible to refine the Godfiend Body no matter how hard one tried to think of a solution.
The second was the Heavenly Hammer and the Earth Furnace. It was a technique to attract the gods with Qi and to attract the body with the gods. Using heaven as the hammer and earth as the furnace, one’s body would be tempered.
Once there was a Godfiend Diagram in one’s heart, they would have to rely on that technique to communicate with heaven and earth using spiritual energy, and then rely on the power of earth to form a supreme furnace, and rely on the heavenly might to form the divine Heavenly Hammer. When one’s body was knocked with the hammer, the Godfiend’s body would be formed.
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It was an extremely dangerous process, but the method was simple. As long as there was enough spiritual energy, refinement could happen once.
However, without extremely strong willpower, one’s essence soul and physical body would collapse, and they would die.
“I thought that gaining an epiphany would be very difficult, but cultivation is even more difficult. However, this is reasonable too. After all, the more powerful the cultivation technique is, the harder it would be. If it can be cultivated easily, wouldn’t everyone be a cultivator?”
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Ye Ping couldn’t help but be emotional after the epiphany.
However, another problem arose.
If he wanted to condense the Heavenly Hammer and Earth Furnace, he would have to possess a large amount of spiritual energy, but the problem was that he lacked spiritual energy.
These days, he had been having epiphanies of sword techniques everyday and did not cultivate at all. Naturally, he wouldn’t have any spiritual energy.
Besides, as he advanced further in learning the Ancient Godfiend Body Tempering Technique, the amount of spiritual energy he needed would continue to increase.
Most importantly, his greatest problem was his poor cultivation aptitude, which was extremely troublesome.
Ye Ping understood his own cultivation aptitude rather well. In half a year’s time, he had taken part in more than 50 Grand Immortal Ascension Meets, and the tests conducted by the hundreds of sects all proved that he did not have any spiritual root.
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Hence, Ye Ping felt that perhaps his aptitude in the Sword Dao might not be that bad and that the worst was probably his aptitude in cultivation.
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“What should I do?”
Trouble came, and Ye Ping felt a headache coming on.
“Should I look for Eldest Senior Brother?”
Ye Ping thought about it but soon vetoed his idea.
“No. My cultivation aptitude is too poor. If I look for Eldest Senior Brother, he might dislike me because of it.”
“But if I don’t look for him, I can’t cultivate. And if I can’t cultivate, I won’t be able to comprehend the Ancient Godfiend Body Tempering Technique.”
Ye Ping frowned and thought about it.
“Eh? Eldest Senior Brother gave me some Qi Refinement Pills previously. I wonder if they’re effective.”
Ye Ping suddenly thought of that.
Thinking about this, he immediately took out the bottle of Qi Refinement Pills.
He poured out a pale white pill from the bottle.
The pill was not large, and in fact, it resembled a grain of rice. It was white in color and emitted a clear fragrance without the odor of medicinal herbs.
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However, just as Ye Ping wanted to swallow the pill, he suddenly froze.
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“Every medicine has its side effect. This is a Qi Refinement Pill, and I’ve yet to enter the Qi Refinement cultivation realm. Who knows if it might trigger something bad? I can’t be reckless.”
All of a sudden, Ye Ping remembered that he had not yet stepped into the Qi Refinement cultivation realm and hence wasn’t sure if he could swallow such a pill.
What if he exploded after doing so?
Thinking of this, Ye Ping put the Qi Refinement Pill back inside the jade bottle.
It definitely pays to be careful.
In the Immortal World, cultivators were divided into seven realms of cultivation.
Qi Refinement realm, Foundation Establishment realm, Golden Core realm, Nascent Soul realm, Essence Soul realm, Tribulation Transcendence realm, and the Mahayana realm.
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There was an insurmountable gulf between each realm. Those who pass it are immortal and those who do not remain mortal. There was an absolute suppression.
Although Ye Ping had no experience with immortal cultivation, he had read some information about it.
Since he was unable to cultivate the Ancient Godfiend Body Tempering Technique, Ye Ping stopped dwelling on it. At least, he had already gained an epiphany of the method, and cultivation was only a matter of time.
Soon, Ye Ping began to comprehend the sword mark again in a bid to get an epiphany.
He wanted to try to comprehend the Four Thunder sword intent sooner.
He continued until the following day.
Su Changyu arrived.
Ever since he gave the Ancient Godfiend Body Tempering Technique secret manual to Ye Ping, he had spent the past three days studying the Chuanhe Swordsmanship. But unfortunately, his desires were unrequited. Su Changyu did not get any shut-eye for three days and nights.
However, he couldn’t understand it at all. That made Su Changyu feel terrible because he would take decades to comprehend the Four Thunder Sword Techniques, but now, he had to cultivate the Chuanhe Swordsmanship too. Although it was inferior to the Four Thunder Sword Techniques, he didn’t have talent at all.
At the thought of this, Su Changyu suddenly felt infuriated.
‘Why do I have to learn a sword technique for no reason? Can’t I teach Ye Ping something else?’
However, that was not what he was most infuriated about. It was the fact that he dared not voice his displeasure.
Daoist Tai Hua was just waiting for him to teach the Chuanhe Swordsmanship to Ye Ping, but if Daoist Tai Hua were to find out that he didn’t learn anything at all, he would be in trouble.
Su Changyu guessed what Daoist Tai Hua had in mind.
He wanted Ye Ping to participate in the Qingzhou Sword Dao Meet.
However, Su Changyu felt that that idea was a little unreliable.
Ye Ping might have a strong aptitude in the Sword Dao.
However, the problem was that Ye Ping did not have any Dharmic powers.
Although there was a rule set for the Qingzhou Sword Dao Meet that only cultivators below the Foundation Establishment realm were allowed to compete in the Sword Dao, most of the participants were at level 7 or level 8 of Qi Refinement and some were even cultivators who had perfected it.
Even though Ye Ping had condensed the sword momentum, he had no Dharmic powers. If he encountered cultivators who were at Level 5 or Level 6, he would still have some chances of winning.
He probably would have no chance against those who were strong at Sword Dao cultivation.
Of course, it was mainly because Su Changyu was unclear of how powerful the Four Thunder sword momentum was. In his eyes, there were only two kinds of people.
Those that were weaker than him and those that were stronger than him.
Hence, for the sake of making Daoist Tai Hua drop the idea, Su Changyu decided to continue teaching Ye Ping nonsense.
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Su Changyu made up his mind to ignore the Chuanhe Swordsmanship and teach Ye Ping according to his own methods.
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He wrote a new sword manual last night.
A portion of it contained the main points of the Chuanhe Sword Technique, but he made up the majority of the rest.
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He did not believe that Ye Ping could comprehend it.
If he could, Su Changyu vowed to eat the swords of everyone at the Qingzhou Sword Dao Meet.
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Hence, Su Changyu went to the rear cliff.