Immortal weapon refiner

Chapter 1104 Refining the Body into a Treasure
After reaching the peak of the Integration Stage, Li Qing did not emerge from seclusion but remained in the Wuji Palace for further cultivation.

He is only now qualified to break through to the Mahayana stage, but the hope is too slim. If he forces himself to break through, he will definitely fall into an abyss.

Most importantly, he had to start preparing for the resurgence of the Demon Lord's will. He didn't want his Dao Fruit to be taken away or replaced by the Demon Lord on his way to the Mahayana stage.

In the time that followed, Li Qing began to use the spoils he obtained in the battles between various races to nourish his soul and body with those extremely precious resources.

This is something many powerful individuals aspiring to the Mahayana stage would proactively do: cultivate their physical body and soul to the extreme beforehand.

This not only increases the chances of a successful breakthrough, but also allows one to undergo a baptism of the heavens after the breakthrough, elevating one's soul and body.

Therefore, every being in the Mahayana stage basically has no weaknesses in any aspect. Their Taoist skills, spiritual soul, and physical body are all consistently strong, far surpassing those of beings below the Mahayana stage.

Throughout history, there has never been a single being who has not yet attained enlightenment and has ever been able to defeat a powerful figure at the pinnacle of the mortal realm. Even Li Qing, whose combat strength is barely enough to touch the forbidden realm, still dares not say that he can fight against a powerful figure at the Mahayana stage.

"Below the Mahayana stage, all are ants. Even the perfected Integration stage is nothing more than a slightly stronger ant." Li Qing sighed and slowly covered his body with a layer of blood-red sand.

This is the prize offered by the beastmen; it is a precious material called Blood Soil of Ten Thousand Beasts.

As soon as he applied the mask, Li Qing felt as if his skin was on fire, the surface of his skin became extremely hot, and his blood and qi surged in waves.

Rumble!
How immense is his current vitality?! Even though he neglected physical cultivation after reaching the Integration Stage, he is still terrifying enough to rival a seventh-tier great demon!

But this vast and boundless energy was so easily stirred up that Li Qing felt a chill run down his spine.

It can only be said that it is indeed a precious treasure of the beast race. How could the beast race, who have been using it to temper their bodies for many years, not have a terrifying physical body?

With the aid of these myriad beast blood soils, every time Li Qing's blood and qi surged within him, his physical body would become stronger, and his blood and qi would become more vigorous. Such a significant improvement far exceeded the speed of normal body tempering.

However, Li Qing was still not satisfied. He began to silently circulate the body-refining inheritance of "Golden Saint Body", treating himself as a spiritual treasure to temper himself.

Li Qing was a highly skilled weapon refiner, and he truly began to examine himself from the perspective of refining a spiritual treasure.

Gradually, with his weapon-refining skills, he actually managed to glimpse the true meaning of this body-refining inheritance.

"So that's how it is. I always made slow progress in cultivating this body-refining method before. I thought that the so-called tempering the physical body as a spiritual treasure was just a figure of speech. I didn't expect that I would actually have to do it."

"This is practically a body-refining technique tailor-made for weapon refiners. If your weapon-refining skills aren't high enough, you might not be able to master it."

This body-refining secret technique was given to Li Qing by a body-refining cultivator in the Xuan Tian Immortal Palace. Although he had been practicing it over the years, the results were minimal.

That body refiner was clearly not skilled in weapon crafting, otherwise he would never have so easily given such a precious body refinement method to Li Qing.

Based on Li Qing's current understanding, he can see the upper limit of this body-refining secret technique. If he were to master this technique, his physical body would probably be comparable to the strength of a Heaven-Reaching Spiritual Treasure.

In the future, let alone tearing apart a Heavenly Treasure with bare hands, it is entirely possible that they could even contend with a Chaos Treasure with their bare hands.

With the help of the Blood Soil of Ten Thousand Beasts, Li Qing truly began to temper and refine his physical body.

He withdrew all his protective spiritual light, and then activated streams of heaven and earth spiritual fire to burn and refine his physical body.

Chichi~!

A sound of flesh being burned by spiritual fire rang out, and Li Qing immediately frowned in pain, his face showing undisguised agony.

This is the simultaneous burning of his physical body by six heavenly and earthly spiritual flames, and he did not use the protective spiritual light of the Integration Stage to shield himself. It is equivalent to directly refining his body with spiritual flames!

Seeing this suicidal act, Yu Ji Lingzun, who was hanging by Li Qing's ear, was also somewhat shocked and puzzled. She said, "I told you to improve your physical body and soul strength as much as possible before advancing to the Mahayana stage, not to torture yourself like this."

Li Qing, however, did not care. He even condensed the six heavenly and earthly spiritual fires into a furnace, placing himself inside the furnace made of pure spiritual fire.

"It's alright, I know what I'm doing," Li Qing muttered to himself, then intensified the intensity of the Heavenly Spirit Fire once more. The six-colored furnace now completely enveloped his body, and the raging flames continuously scorched and melted his flesh.

boom!
As the fire intensified, Li Qing's physical body began to suffer damage. The originally vigorous blood and qi in his body began to evaporate. This did not look like body tempering at all, but rather self-destruction.

But at that moment, the layer of beast blood soil that had been applied to his body turned completely red and gradually merged into his skin.

This is to make the most of the Blood Soil of Ten Thousand Beasts, using the burning of the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire to completely force out its power. Even the Beast Race has never done this before.

Before long, Li Qing's body looked like a whole piece of dark red charcoal.

Finally, he withdrew the spiritual fire of heaven and earth, and the six-colored flame furnace vanished in an instant, with pieces of his charred, dark red skin falling off.

pat!pat!
With a series of crisp sounds, Li Qing's newly formed physical body was revealed. This body shone with a faint golden luster, and in an instant, it returned to its normal state.

"Cultivating oneself through tribulations and refining the body with fire is a path that can make the physical body immortal. If one cultivates it to perfection in the future, one will be impervious to all laws and immortal through countless eons!"

Li Qing muttered to himself. After finishing his cultivation, his face gradually turned pale, devoid of any color.

This kind of body-refining method is very effective, but the biggest problem is that it consumes too much qi and blood, making each cultivation session feel like a major calamity.

Extremely weak, Li Qing immediately took out some spiritual medicine to replenish his vital energy and swallowed it. As his blood and energy gradually returned to normal, his complexion gradually became rosy.

The remaining Beast Blood Soil would allow him to cultivate like this twice more. It was an extremely precious item, and even the beast race wouldn't use too much of it as a prize for a competition. Li Qing was already quite satisfied with this.

Time flies, and more than thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye. The Great Dao of the entire Spirit Realm seems to be suppressed, and in these years, rifts in the Demon Realm have appeared and disappeared in the sky.

The demonic calamity is truly coming; all beings of all races can sense it with extreme clarity. This will be a great catastrophe that will sweep across the entire spirit world.

Finally, seven years later, a rift in the demon realm was completely torn open in the sky above the spirit realm, and a giant hand slammed down on the central continent of the spirit realm, Tianyuan Continent!
boom!
This attack seemed to suppress even the Great Dao itself, dimming the stars and extinguishing the sun and moon!
In an instant, all living beings on the entire Tianyuan Continent sensed it. Under this world-destroying palm strike, all living beings trembled and felt a deep unease.

It's unimaginable what would happen if that terrifying palm strike were to come down like that; the entire Tianyuan Continent would probably be blasted into a bottomless abyss!
Just at this critical moment, the sky, which had suddenly darkened, suddenly brightened, and a golden sun shone in all directions!

The giant black hand was blocked, and all the demonic energy instantly dissipated.

The one who made the move was an ancient ancestor of the Golden Crow Clan. The great sun transformed into a golden crow, and as golden light burst forth, the giant hand that descended from the Demon Realm was shattered, leaving not a trace of demonic energy behind.

Immediately afterwards, a majestic and vast voice resounded from the dark rift that had torn open the spirit realm's sky:

"Golden Crow, your race has not been wiped out yet, and you still exist in this world."

The golden crow soared through the air, its golden feathers shimmering with a dazzling light.

"Our race has existed since ancient times, like the sun that never sets. How could we be easily wiped out? Even if your Demon Realm's progenitor were to come in person, he couldn't do it," said the ancient ancestor of the Golden Crow Clan with immense pride.

"Heh, so it's just a Golden Crow with impure blood. I thought it was a true ancient spirit." The voice from the Demon Realm rift said disdainfully.

These words seemed to sting the proud ancestor of the Golden Crow Clan, who suddenly flapped his wings, and boundless golden light blasted into the rift.

But this attack seemed to sink into the ocean without even making a ripple, instead widening the hideous rift in the demonic realm.

"Such a weak and ineffective attack, are you trying to make me laugh?" The powerful demon from the rift chuckled.

These words thoroughly enraged the ancient ancestor of the Golden Crow Clan. He soared through the sky and flew directly toward the rift in the demonic realm, with thick golden flames swirling behind him, making him appear as if he had brought with him a sea of ​​fire.

But at that very moment, a voice resounded once more, stopping the ancient ancestor of the Golden Crow Clan: "Jin Ming, come back. There is a Demon Realm Ancestor waiting over there. If you cross over, you will surely die."

The progenitor of the demon realm!

These words immediately stopped the golden crow that was soaring through the sky. The endless sea of ​​golden fire did rush over, but it still went out after entering the rift, without causing much of a commotion.

Immediately afterwards, a colossal Dharma image appeared from the Tianyuan Continent. It was a three-headed, six-armed celestial being seated on a seven-colored lotus throne, descending to the world like a true immortal.

An elder of the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan appeared, sensing a familiar aura from the other side of the rift.

"Ancestor Nirvana, are you going to be the vanguard this time?"

Soon, the rift suddenly expanded by tens of thousands of feet, and a demonic eye filled with endless demonic energy opened from it, with each plane seemingly withering away in its pupil.

The moment his gaze fell upon them, the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth in the Spirit Realm was briefly suppressed.

Under the gaze of this demonic eye, even the ancient ancestor of the Golden Crow Clan at the early stage of Mahayana appeared so insignificant, and even when he transformed into his true form as a Golden Crow, he seemed somewhat insignificant!
However, this terrifying gaze did not linger on the golden crow for long, but instead turned its attention to the three-headed, six-armed celestial being.

"Lingxuzi, it's been over 100,000 years, and you still haven't broken through the void and ascended. Could it be that you've grown so old that you can't even trigger the tribulation to become an immortal?" The Nirvana Ancestor of the Demon Realm chuckled.

Ling Xuzi of the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan didn't care about such teasing, but instead asked directly, "Nie Yuan, what is the purpose of this large-scale invasion of my Spirit Realm? Could it be that you intend to wipe out all the ancient demons of the Demon Realm?"

"Hahaha, want to know? Then cross over here, and I'll tell you the reason myself." The Ancestor of Nirvana laughed loudly.

Ling Xuzi remained unmoved. His Dharma form slowly stood up, and his six-armed divine form moved in unison, as if evolving the Six Paths of Reincarnation, forcibly closing the torn rift in the demon realm.

"It will be more than twenty years before the two realms truly unite. Why are they testing the waters so early? What exactly are the Demon Ancestors up to?" Ling Xuzi murmured, and then the six-armed divine image that supported the sky slowly dissipated.

This brief exchange was felt by all living beings on the Tianyuan Continent.

Just now, a demon ancestor forcibly tore open a rift in the demon realm ahead of time, almost harming a Mahayana-stage ancient ancestor of the Golden Crow Clan. It was truly astonishing.

In the human realm, all cultivators personally experienced the power of the Demon Ancestor, whose existence could even suppress the Great Dao, making him a taboo in the world.

Inside the Refining Heaven Pavilion, Li Qing finally emerged from seclusion.

Over the years, he has used up all the Blood Soil of Ten Thousand Beasts, and at the same time, his physical body has been elevated to an unprecedented level.

He originally wanted to continue cultivating the "Soul Refining Scripture" to improve his own soul as much as possible, but he was interrupted by the violent commotion in the world just now.

"The progenitor of the demon realm"

Li Qing's expression became extremely solemn, because the moment the Demon Ancestor gazed upon the Tianyuan Continent with his Demon Eye, he felt that the Demon Lord's will within his sea of ​​consciousness seemed to have become much more active.

He had to abandon his cultivation, remain vigilant at all times, and be prepared to suppress the will that seemed to be resurrecting at any moment.

The good news is that Lingxuzi forcibly closed the prematurely opened rift in the demon realm, and the Demon Lord's will quickly returned to calm.

"The Demon Realm, the Demon Lord," Li Qing muttered to himself repeatedly, racking his brains, but he couldn't figure out what the Demon Realm's invasion had to do with the Demon Lord's resurgence of will.

Finally, Li Qing sighed and murmured, "We can't sit idly by any longer. Some of my previous ideas must be implemented now."

(End of this chapter)