Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 890 Cultivating the Spirit Devouring Body
As Yang Zhengshan continuously poured his spiritual power and magical energy into the Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda, he soon felt a slight connection between his spiritual power and the pagoda.

Then, with a thought, the Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda disappeared from his front and entered his sea of ​​consciousness, surrounding his soul.

Unlike other magical treasures, the Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda can enter the sea of ​​consciousness and be nurtured within it.

Ordinary magical artifacts generally cannot be stored inside the body; they can only be carried on one's person or placed in a storage bag.

As soon as the Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda entered Yang Zhengshan's sea of ​​consciousness, he felt a powerful force surge from the depths of his consciousness, enveloping the pagoda.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Zhengshan discovered that the Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda had been completely refined. It wasn't a simple refinement, but a thorough and complete refinement, as if Yang Zhengshan had been nurturing this treasure for a very, very long time.

Moreover, all seven layers of the pagoda were opened for him, no longer because his soul strength was insufficient to open the sixth and seventh layers.

In other words, he can now unleash the full power of the Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda.

"Hehe, I didn't expect the Origin Core could help me refine magic treasures!" Yang Zhengshan thought happily as he sensed all the functions of the Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda.

That power just now was the core of the Spirit Source Land. His soul was fused with the core of the Spirit Source Land, so he could draw on the power of heaven and earth in the Spirit Source Land.

He just didn't expect that his soul could actually draw upon the power of the primordial core.

In this way, it saves him trouble, as he no longer needs to spend time and energy slowly nurturing the Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda.

After understanding the situation, Yang Zhengshan moved his divine sense slightly, and the Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda in his sea of ​​consciousness immediately began to rotate, emitting strange Daoist charm.

The next moment, Yang Zhengshan's soul appeared in a dark space.

This space looks very, very large, boundless, but in reality it is very, very small.

The space contained a mesmerizing Taoist aura, and one could vaguely see many illusory scenes.

This is the exquisite soul domain of the Returning Soul Array.

"I see!"

After learning about the functions of the Linglong Soul Domain, Yang Zhengshan was overjoyed.

The Soul Returning Array can forcibly pull another person's soul into the Exquisite Soul Domain. Once the soul enters the Exquisite Soul Domain, it will be trapped in an endless illusion.

The longer one remains in a state of depravity, the weaker one's soul will become, until the soul completely dissipates, leaving behind only the purest essence of soul power.

Furthermore, the Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda will also feed back pure divine soul power to Yang Zhengshan's divine soul.

The reason Yang Zhengshan valued the Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda was not because it could nourish the soul, but because it could imprison the soul. As long as the enemy's soul was weaker than Yang Zhengshan's, he could imprison the enemy's soul inside the Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda.

With the Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda, his Soul-Capturing Bell and Soul-Breaking Cone became completely useless. In fact, Yang Zhengshan rarely used these two magic weapons now, mainly because their power was not outstanding and at most they had the effect of surprise.

The Soul-Breaking Cone is not an uncommon magical artifact; Mo Xuanyu also possesses one!
In contrast, magical artifacts that defend the soul are relatively rare.

The Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda is a versatile magical artifact for suppressing the soul, capable of both offense and defense.

After thoroughly understanding the functions of the Seven Treasures Soul-Suppressing Pagoda, Yang Zhengshan kept it in his sea of ​​consciousness to nurture it, and then took out the jade slip containing the Devouring Spirit Dharma Body to read.

This body-refining technique is very simple: it involves absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, or the spiritual energy and essence contained within spiritual objects. Not only can it improve the cultivator's physique and forge a powerful physical body, but it can also increase the efficiency of absorbing spiritual energy during cultivation.

The Devouring Spirit Body is divided into four stages. The first stage is the Body Tempering and Devouring Spirit Body Tempering, which involves absorbing the spiritual energy and spiritual objects of heaven and earth to reshape the foundation of the physical body and create a powerful body that can accommodate massive amounts of energy.

The second stage is the condensation of the spiritual domain, forming an abyss from the sea. This involves finding a region and condensing it into one's own spiritual domain to store mana and spiritual energy. During battle, one can draw mana and spiritual energy from the spiritual domain remotely, gaining greater power for a short period of time.

Previously, Mo Xuanyu had refined the blood pool into a spiritual domain, which made his physique extremely powerful during battle. He almost crippled Yang Zhengshan with a single punch.

However, Mo Xuanyu's Blood Pool Spirit Domain was clearly not yet fully refined, or rather, his Devouring Spirit Dharma Body was not yet fully cultivated, causing his will to be affected by the Blood Fiend Qi, making his mind somewhat unclear.

The third stage is the formation of the spiritual realm, where form and manifestation occur. This stage allows cultivators to condense a Dharma body, which may be a powerful giant, a mysterious ancient beast, or an ancient deity. The Dharma body manifests, its divine might overwhelming, suppressing all things, and spanning heaven and earth.

At this stage, the true power of the Devouring Spirit Dharma Body can be manifested. This is no longer a simple cultivation technique or spell, but a supernatural power.

However, this stage cannot be cultivated casually; one must condense the spiritual domain to an extremely large extent.

The fourth stage is devouring and sublimation, the return of all things to nothingness, breaking through the boundaries of matter and energy, devouring all existence, including spiritual energy, magical treasures, and even fragments of laws, to achieve the supreme Dharma body that can devour all things.

Yang Zhengshan looked thoughtful as he read to the end.

The fourth stage is completely different from the first three stages. He could understand the first three stages, which were simply about gaining powerful strength by absorbing spiritual energy. However, the fourth stage seemed to touch upon a level that he could not comprehend.

Everything can be swallowed!
This has transcended the simple path of cultivation and seems to have reached the level of rules.

Of all things in the world, countless are wondrous and extraordinary!
How could it be swallowed immediately?
Let alone cultivators, even ancient mythical beasts wouldn't dare claim they could devour everything.

Even the mighty fire of the sun cannot burn everything.

Moreover, the description of the fourth stage in the jade slip is very vague and does not contain detailed cultivation methods.

Therefore, Yang Zhengshan felt that this fourth stage was likely a figment of the imagination of the creator of the technique.

But that doesn't matter. The first three stages are enough for him to cultivate. He estimates that he might need to reach the Golden Core level to cultivate to the third stage.

As for the fourth stage, whether it's a false delusion or a higher realm of divine power and laws, that's somewhat distant for him now.

His first task now is to temper his Dharma body and purify his body by absorbing spiritual energy. This is very simple; it is nothing more than absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and spiritual objects.

Yang Zhengshan felt that this technique was similar to the Wood Transformation Body Nourishing Method because this stage was almost identical to the cultivation methods of the third and fourth stages of the Wood Transformation Body Nourishing Method.

The Wood Transformation Body Cultivation Method also requires absorbing the spiritual energy of spiritual fruits, integrating the spiritual energy of the fruits into every inch of the body, so that the body can gain powerful vitality and life force.

The process of tempering the Spirit Devouring Dharma Body is similar, except that the Spirit Devouring Dharma Body can devour spiritual energy of any attribute, not just a single attribute.

Yang Zhengshan pondered for a moment and decided that he should cultivate the Spirit Devouring Body while continuing the Wood Transformation Body Cultivation Technique. In other words, he would only devour wood-attribute spiritual energy, preferably from spiritual fruits. This way, he could not only improve the Wood Transformation Body Cultivation Technique but also cultivate the Spirit Devouring Body.

If he wanted to condense a spiritual domain, he could find a forest of spiritual fruit trees in the Spirit Source Land to use as his spiritual domain. He could then plant more spiritual fruit trees, as well as other spiritual trees and ancient trees.

Unlike Mo Xuanyu, who cultivated the Devouring Spirit Body to gain powerful combat strength, he only aimed to improve his physical strength and lay a solid physical foundation for future Core Formation.

After making up his mind, Yang Zhengshan immediately began his cultivation.

He retrieved a large quantity of spiritual fruits and began to absorb the spiritual energy within them, reshaping the foundation of his physical body.

Now he no longer has to be limited to consuming spiritual fruits of the same origin as when he first cultivated the Wood Transformation Body Cultivation Technique. He can now selectively consume spiritual fruits that are rich in wood-attribute spiritual energy.

The Spirit Source Land has no shortage of spirit fruits, which he can devour to his heart's content.

As Yang Zhengshan cultivated the Devouring Spirit Body, he made some changes to his cultivation methods.

He elevated the Devouring Spirit Dharma Body to the same level as the Green Wood Longevity Scripture and the Void Refining Scripture, and practiced them regularly. If he missed practicing these three techniques due to other matters, he would make up for it later.

In addition to these three techniques, Yang Zhengshan also needs to practice the Qinghua Thunder Technique regularly. He continues to nurture new thunder pearls as the foundation for his use of the Yi Wood Divine Thunder. As for the first thunder pearl, he will also nurture it, but he will never use it unless absolutely necessary.

Then comes alchemy. Demon Essence Pills still need to be refined, and as many as possible should be refined.

After cultivating the Devouring Spirit Body, Yang Zhengshan's efficiency in consuming Demon Essence Pills increased, ensuring that the medicinal power of the Demon Essence Pills would not be wasted.

The combination of the Demon Essence Pill and the Devouring Spirit Body will allow him to improve his cultivation level more quickly.

Yang Zhengshan's cultivation of the Devouring Spirit Body went smoothly. In just two years, he completed the first stage of cultivation and was able to cultivate the second stage, condensing his spiritual domain.

This was largely thanks to his Wood Transformation Body Cultivation Method; otherwise, he would never have had such a smooth journey.

However, Yang Zhengshan's cultivation of the second stage went more smoothly. He selected a spiritual fruit tree garden in the Spirit Source Land as his spiritual domain. However, just as he began to transform this orchard into a spiritual domain, he was surprised to find that he did not need to refine the spiritual domain at all, because the entire Spirit Source Land was his spiritual domain.

That's right, he can directly use the Spirit Source Land as his Spirit Domain, and he can directly draw spiritual energy from the Spirit Source Land to infuse himself with it, thus achieving a Dharma Body.

This discovery surprised and shocked him.

Surprisingly, he did not expect that the Spirit Source Land could serve as the Spirit Domain of the Devouring Spirit Body. He was shocked that if the Spirit Source Land could serve as a Spirit Domain, wouldn't he obtain an immense amount of spiritual energy?

It is important to know that the spiritual energy concentration in the Spirit Source Land is very high. The spiritual vein centered on the Spirit Spring Mountain Plain has almost reached the middle grade of the third rank, while the spiritual energy concentration in other places is roughly equivalent to the level of the middle grade of the second rank spiritual vein.

Within a thousand miles, even the lowest concentration of spiritual energy is at the level of a mid-grade second-tier spiritual vein, so it goes without saying how vast the spiritual energy contained there is.

If he could drain the spiritual energy from the Spirit Source Land, how powerful would his Dharma Body be?
Yang Zhengshan couldn't imagine it!
Of course, he couldn't do it either.

If he dared to pour all the spiritual energy from the Spirit Source into his body, his body would burst instantly.

"This is truly an unexpected delight!"

On Lingquan Mountain, Yang Zhengshan transformed into a three-zhang giant, feeling the power of his body, and couldn't help but sigh.

His physical form was not as ugly as Mo Xuanyu's; it was no different from his original appearance, still with an air of otherworldly elegance. The only difference was that his beard was much shorter. It wasn't that his beard had become shorter, but rather that his body had grown larger. His beard, however, hadn't changed; his original magnificent beard looked more like a goat's horn.

Yu Qingyi stood in front of him, looking like a tiny little thing.

"This robe is quite nice; it can grow to fit your size!" Yu Qingyi looked up at Yang Zhengshan, her eyes crinkling with a smile.

"Of course, this is a robe sewn by the lady herself, how could it not be good?" Yang Zhengshan's voice became deep and muffled.

Yu Qingyi chuckled, "Come on, I only sewed it, I didn't make the array on it!"

The robe has a magic array that can change size, but Yu Qingyi doesn't know how to use it. Ma Qiuyan and Ning Yun helped her create the array.

Yang Zhengshan returned to his original physique, put his arm around Yu Qingyi's soft waist, and said with a smile, "Then I must thank you, Madam!"

Yu Qingyi smiled and strolled along the lakeside with him.

As their cultivation levels increased, Yang Zhengshan and Yu Qingyi's cultivation time also became longer and longer. Each cultivation session would take two or three days, and if they went into seclusion, it would take three to five months.

Especially Yang Zhengshan, it takes him ten days to half a month to refine a single Demon Essence Pill.

As a result, the two spent much less time together.

However, their feelings for each other did not grow cold because of this. Compared to their long lives, a few dozen days or a few months was just a short time.

Yang Zhengshan would regularly take time to accompany Yu Qingyi, to spar with her, to show her his successful cultivation, or to take her for a walk and go out for a stroll.

"I'm planning to go to Baiyun Immortal City, do you want to come?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

Yu Qingyi shook her head slightly, "I won't go. I heard that Baiyun Immortal City isn't very friendly to martial artists!"

It's not that Baiyun Immortal City is unfriendly to martial artists, but rather that the more powerful the immortal cultivation forces are, the less they look down on martial artists.

As one's cultivation level increases, the gap between martial artists and immortal cultivators widens.

Golden Body Realm warriors are far inferior to Foundation Establishment cultivators, and the gap between Divine Soul Realm warriors and Golden Core cultivators is even greater; they are simply not on the same level.

A martial artist in the Divine Soul Realm is stronger than a Foundation Establishment cultivator, but when facing a Golden Core cultivator, a martial artist in the Divine Soul Realm is a complete underdog; the two are not comparable at all.

With Golden Core cultivators presiding over White Cloud Immortal City, it naturally wouldn't care about Divine Soul Realm warriors, let alone Golden Body Realm warriors.

In the Sea of ​​Spiritual Beauty, a Golden Body Realm martial artist is a master, but in the White Cloud Immortal City, a Golden Body Realm martial artist can only serve as a follower of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

(End of this chapter)