Born with immortal seed

Chapter 367 Heavenly Might Star Bone

"What exaggerated bones! Even a fourth-tier spiritual object would start to melt after being scorched by my alchemical fire for a full hundred days..."

When Bai Zichen returned from the Black Mountain Market, no one showed any surprise at his appearance.

Even on their way back to Flaming Mountain, they slowed down while studying the strange shoulder bone and were stopped by two Foundation Establishment disciples from the sect.

He fabricated the identity of a rogue cultivator from Hejian, claiming that he had come to visit Master Bai as arranged.

Furthermore, relying on his powerful divine sense, he managed to transmit his voice from the Star Gazing Pavilion, thus successfully entering the Flaming Mountain openly and legitimately as the rogue cultivator Su Wuming.

It was verified that the Heavenly Illusion Bracelet, when combined with the Body Transformation Technique, was indeed remarkably effective; even the sect disciples could not recognize that this handsome young man was none other than Old Ancestor Bai.

He even met Ma Ruoxi, who enthusiastically led the way, treating him as a promising young talent from Hejian.

Because of his outstanding talent, he was chosen by his master to be sent to the Flaming Mountain.

Two days later, he reappeared as Su Wuming, pretending to say goodbye to Bai Zhenren before leaving, putting on a complete show.

He then began to tinker with the bone that gave him the strange sensation, refining it with his true essence and penetrating it with his divine sense, but there was no reaction at all.

As a last resort, they resorted to violence, using alchemical fire to temper the shoulder bones in an attempt to refine the outer shell and reveal the true form.

After a hundred days, the bones remained perfectly still, emitting a faint red glow.

"I don't believe it, that it can't even refine a bone..."

Bai Zichen hardened his heart, and a fiery dragon with claws and teeth appeared behind him, simultaneously spewing out a mouthful of flames.

Its color is orange-red, and it already shows signs of transforming into pure yang fire, burning everything in its path.

The indoor temperature rose instantly, and under the dual heat and tempering of the flames, the bones finally softened and deformed, and wisps of black smoke rose.

After another hundred days, the bones gradually shrank and eventually became a pool of golden liquid, with billions of sparkling points of light inside, like stars hanging in the night sky.

As the golden liquid appeared, an inexplicable aura of majesty and solemnity descended, making one feel heavy-hearted and somewhat breathless.

Even when facing a Nascent Soul True Monarch at full power, one would not feel this way. It was somewhat similar to the awe-inspiring divine punishment that came when Ge Cang underwent his tribulation and the Five Elements Purple Lightning Tribulation crashed down from the sky.

That represents the majesty of Heaven, and even those with high cultivation levels will be shaken on a spiritual level.

Otherwise, how could those immortals who descended to the mortal realm in ancient times have spoken of tribulations as something terrifying and terrifying?

"Could it be a strange bone formed by absorbing the power of heavenly lightning?"

Bai Zichen withdrew the pill fire, and the fire dragon behind him had shrunk by a circle. Activating the double flames to refine the bones was a huge burden on his true essence.

If it weren't for the fact that I was in a mid-grade fourth-order spiritual land, where pure and vigorous spiritual energy would surge into my body in the blink of an eye and quickly transform into true essence.

Even with his late-stage Core Formation cultivation, he couldn't have lasted that long.

He covered his hand with his true essence and caught the ball of golden spiritual liquid. In the past, his physical strength, which was enough to turn the tide, almost caused him to lose control of the ball with a slight sway of his wrist.

The golden spiritual liquid also contained a fragment of primordial spirit, which he captured and let wander aimlessly through his sea of ​​consciousness like a headless fly.

The lightning bolt hanging high above the sea of ​​consciousness pressed down, slapping the fragment of the primordial spirit into the furnace of heaven and earth, instantly obliterating it.

The vast amount of information contained in the fragment of his primordial spirit appeared one by one in his mind, allowing him to fully understand the origin and development of this shoulder bone.

"The Heavenly Might Star Bone, shoulder bone, can withstand bewitching spells and spiritual attacks that are one level higher than oneself..."

This bone was actually a celestial bone forged by a Nascent Soul cultivator in ancient times, and he cultivated the supreme body-refining technique, the Nine Heavens Bone Forging Technique.

This person called himself the Celestial Master Tianku, who was given two volumes of the Nine Heavens Bone Forging Technique by a banished immortal from the upper realm, and forged the Heavenly Might Star Bone and the Sun Yuan Copper Bone.

Ten thousand years after his death, his physical body decayed, but his two immortal bones remained immortal.

Somehow, one of the pieces went through many twists and turns and ended up in the hands of the ancestor of that dark-skinned young man in the market.

The secret has never been discovered; all that is known is that it is indestructible, and it has been passed down as the bones of a powerful monster.

It wasn't until he met Bai Zichen, who had truly inherited the legacy of that upper-realm sword immortal and had studied the Nine Heavens Bone Forging Technique, that he had a strange reaction.

"The Nine Heavens Bone Forging Technique is divided into seven volumes, each with different cultivation requirements... Among them, the Sun Yuan Copper Bone has the lowest cultivation requirements; as long as one's divine sense is attached to it and a golden core is formed, it is sufficient. The Heavenly Might Star Bone is slightly higher; one must reach the perfect Golden Core stage and collect nine kinds of extraterrestrial star iron to forge it."

The Sun Origin Copper Bone is made by taking thirteen kinds of precious spiritual materials and refining the forehead skull into immortal bones, making it fearless of heavenly fire and raising the strength of the physical body to a higher level.

The Heavenly Might Star Bone is made by collecting nine kinds of extraterrestrial star iron and fusing them into the shoulder bones in front of the chest to forge immortal bones, which can resist all secret techniques targeting the primordial spirit.

A Core Formation cultivator can withstand Nascent Soul cultivators' techniques.

Once you reach the Nascent Soul realm, you will be unafraid of mysterious transformation techniques.

In the remaining volumes, the basic requirements for refining immortal bones become increasingly higher.

For example, to achieve the Nascent Soul stage, one must fuse two fifth-tier spiritual objects, namely, the Extreme Yang and Yin, to refine the Immortal Bone.

After mastering it, one's escape techniques become divine, and the speed of one's escape light can be increased by more than half.

The formless sword bone, also requiring the Nascent Soul realm, has no requirements for the spiritual materials of heaven and earth; the cultivator only needs to reach the sword path realm of sword light differentiation.

With such immortal bones, one can conceal one's presence when wielding a sword, becoming a truly invisible sword that is impossible for others to defend against.

It is precisely because the seven types of immortal bones have a host of additional requirements in addition to the basic conditions for cultivation that Bai Zichen, despite knowing that this body-refining cultivation method, which he obtained at the same time as the Ziwei Dazzling Thunder Sword and the Supreme Pure Micro Sword Box, must be extraordinary, still hesitated to try it.

Reaching the required cultivation level is only the most basic requirement; other requirements are the greater obstacles.

After hundreds of thousands of years, even the fragments of the primordial spirit of a Nascent Soul cultivator are incomplete, with information remaining fragmented.

What is certain is that the previous owner of this shoulder bone, the Venerable Tianku, had only managed to refine two immortal bones after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, and regarded them as one of his greatest trump cards.

This shows just how difficult it is to meet the cultivation requirements for immortal bones.

This golden spiritual liquid mixed with billions of light spots contains the nine extraterrestrial iron components needed to cultivate the Heavenly Might Star Bone. This means that if Bai Zichen reaches the Perfect Core Formation stage, he can immediately begin cultivating the Heavenly Might Star Bone.

"Once I refine the Heavenly Might Star Bone, all divine sense attacks will be ineffective against me, and I can be immune to many insidious and underhanded tricks... Those secret techniques are unpredictable and difficult to defend against. Many high-level cultivators have been ambushed by people whose cultivation is far inferior to their own, making them impossible to guard against."

Bai Zichen took out the Suanni wine pot and put the ball of golden spiritual liquid into it, storing it separately in a compartment.

An ordinary jade bottle really couldn't withstand the weight of the golden spiritual liquid. Even this spiritual artifact was somewhat overwhelmed and trembled as it shook.

"I will make all thirteen kinds of spiritual materials needed to cultivate the Sun Bone a long-term task and issue them to the General Affairs Hall... As the number of disciples in the sect increases, there will always be outstanding disciples who will be able to obtain what I need. It will definitely be much faster than me searching for them alone."

Only these two immortal bones have the lowest requirements for cultivation level; the rest require starting from the Nascent Soul stage, so they're not even worth paying attention to.

After this incident, Bai Zichen stayed on Flaming Mountain, focusing solely on refining spiritual energy and comprehending celestial phenomena.

One day, a letter was delivered to the Flaming Mountain, which made him slowly get up and let out a long roar to the sky.

On a clear, bright day, with clear blue clouds, it resembles a pure tourmaline.

With a long howl, a sky full of stars appeared in the clear sky, flashing and disappearing in an instant.

After four years of seclusion, his understanding of the Starry Sky Sword Intent has deepened.

However, the day of Tang Fei Zhenjun's sword duel is approaching, so he cannot continue his cultivation without limit and can only stop here for the time being.

"Cultivation knows no time, and that's starting to show in me..."

Bai Zichen in the past didn't know what a bottleneck was, so he didn't need to go into seclusion for a long time.

However, as one's cultivation deepens, it takes a hundred years to reach the peak of one's current realm.

Any supernatural skill or secret technique, including the mastery of swordsmanship, requires a period of ten years to see any progress.

On the other side of the Flaming Mountain, a clear bird cry also rang out, soaring straight into the sky.

As soon as the stars disappeared, thunder rumbled in the clear sky, shaking the clouds into tiny fragments.

Bai Zichen stepped out and arrived above a grand hall. Before long, he saw a flash of lightning.

"Senior Brother Ge seems to have made great progress in his thunder magic. Has he mastered the Xuanming One Qi Formless Divine Thunder?"

Bai Zichen cupped his hands and asked with a smile, noticing a different flavor in the thunder than before.

"It is not yet fully accomplished; I can only say that I have made some progress... My junior brother is also making great strides in swordsmanship. Even I was awestruck by the vastness of his sword light, which was as bright as the starry sky."

Ge Cang knew that the ten-year sword duel agreement was approaching, and with this movement of emerging from seclusion, there must be clear information.

"But the location for Tang Zhenjun and Xiang Ji's sword duel has already been decided?"

"That's right, several Nascent Soul True Monarchs were invited to serve as witnesses at Meili Snow Peak within the Frost Kingdom..."

The letter Bai Zichen received consisted of only a few lines of scribbles, the pen sharp and the sword-like strokes penetrating the paper, as if a sword technique were rushing towards him on the paper.

Even without a signature, he, who had sparred with Tang Fei Zhenjun, would immediately know the writer's identity.

"They actually chose Meili Snow Mountain. I've been there once. There are glacial storms all year round, which makes it impossible for cultivators to live there for long. Otherwise, it would be the best spiritual vein for cultivators who practice ice-type techniques."

When Ge Cang first appeared, there were still wisps of lightning dancing around his body, which gradually subsided and disappeared into his acupoints.

"Senior Brother, you received news beforehand that Zengguang Immortal City was going to hold the Grand Ceremony of Ten Thousand Immortals. How did the Du Clan launch such a surprise attack?"

"I can't think of a reason right now, but it can't be a spur-of-the-moment decision. There must be something important involved behind it."

Although Ge Cang had not been in the Nascent Soul stage for long, he had already gained considerable prestige in the cultivation world during his Core Formation stage and had dealt with many Nascent Soul True Monarchs.

Everyone was happy to give the future Nascent Soul True Monarch face, and they mostly addressed each other as peers and exchanged ideas enthusiastically.

Even he didn't know the purpose of Zengguang Immortal City's actions. Shortening the preparation period was definitely a huge disadvantage for the Super Auction. He wondered what the old ancestor of the Du family was thinking.

(End of this chapter)