All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 339 - 196 Progress and Goals (2/3)

Chapter 339: Chapter 196 Progress and Goals (2/3)

When Huo Qing drove to the warehouse in Chonggang Town to meet An Jing, An Jing was assessing his cultivation progress.

The gains in terms of treasures could be described as full to the brim, but An Jing felt that his biggest improvement during this life-and-death battle was in his cultivation techniques and divine skills.

Because he practiced multiple cultivation methods, An Jing divided his strength into three major parts.

The first part, Embracing the Void Martial Arts.

In this aspect, it encompassed the Demon Sect’s Son of Heaven Method and Grasping Heavenly Moment, the Bright Mirror Heart cultivation method imparted to An Jing by the Bright Mirror Sect Mingguang Dust, as well as the ’Commanding Five Soldiers Thunder’ taught by Jin Yanhua.

Among these, at the brink of life and death, An Jing had reduced the time it took to enter the ’Son of Heaven Method’ to a single breath, achieving his own expectation of utilizing the Son of Heaven Method in battle.

The skills Embracing the Pill and Heavenly Demon Dismemberment Method were only possible under the perfect introspection of the Son of Heaven Method, combined with the super-speed thinking of the Grasping Heavenly Moment.

Moreover, under the state of the Son of Heaven Method, An Jing’s use of the Injury-Sword Finger caused less damage to himself.

The second part, Qi Refinement and Immortal Cultivation.

This part was mainly about the Taibai Luminous Godly Ban.

An Jing had achieved the Nine Prohibitions, obtaining the Divine Skill [Proving Staunch White].

Theoretically, An Jing had only achieved eight prohibitions, but the ninth was the Soul and Spirit. However, under the Grasping Heavenly Moment, An Jing had coalesced his Soul and Spirit Divine Abnormality, and this newly created Divine Abnormality naturally covered by An Jing’s Magic Prohibition. Thus, subtly, An Jing had completed the Ninth Prohibition.

This is the synergy between Martial Arts and Immortal Cultivation, supporting and complementing each other, possibly requiring some initial accumulation time, but once the harvesting period begins, it’s as if one is stepping on one’s own foot to upgrade on the spot.

And the Divine Skill [Proving Staunch White] made An Jing internally and externally uniform, merging body and soul.

Since then, An Jing would not fear the Five Poisons and was also extremely resistant to various mental attacks. As long as he was not completely killed, even if he were severely injured, he still had the strength for another battle.

Any attacks on An Jing’s Soul and Spirit would always partly transfer to his body; as long as An Jing’s body was not destroyed, even if his Soul and Spirit sustained heavy injury, he could still maintain his ability to think.

This Divine Skill is the foundation of many divine skills following the Taibai Luminous Godly Ban. Therefore, it is fundamental, but even so, in An Jing’s hands, coupled with Embracing the Void Martial Arts, it made him an indomitable, unbreakable force.

The third part, Heavenly Mandate Divine Skills.

An Jing’s original divine skill [Mars Guarding Heart] had reached the stage where Qi Soldiers were integrated into the body. Next, through the advancement of the Taibai Luminous Godly Ban and the enlightenment of his own nature of Heavenly Mandate, An Jing’s [Taibai Erosion and Soaring] also awakened a new Divine Skill [Dissolving Troops into Spirit].

This Divine Skill, as its name suggests, allowed An Jing to have a special attack against various weapons and magic treasures, and upon their destruction, he could coalesce their essence into a Spirit Mechanism for storage.

Under the Seven Fiend Heavenly Mandate, Coalescing Qi into Soldiers and Dissolving Troops into Spirit obviously had interaction—the Spirit Mechanism from Dissolving Troops into Spirit could be used to temporarily enhance the strength of Qi Soldiers, as well as slowly nurture the essence of Qi Soldiers, while Qi Soldiers from Coalescing Qi into Soldiers could also enhance the killing power of Dissolving Troops into Spirit on other weapons, representing the initial form of the Seven Fiends bond.

The complete form of their cooperative power was [Killing Life].

Killing Life, described by the Subdue Evil Sword Spirit as An Jing’s Companion Spirit Treasure, seemed to be just a repeatedly strengthened Qi Soldier, but its nature was far from simple.

When An Jing created it, he had a vague realization—Killing Life was not complete.

The complete form of this Divine Weapon definitely could not be shaped by just two Divine Skills. Coalescing Qi into Soldiers and Dissolving Troops into Spirit were just the basic conditions for shaping its form, while its Divine Skill spirituality, profound Dao intent, and the tricks to trigger its real killing power had not yet been mastered by An Jing.

Its complete form, at the very least, required the union of five Divine Skills under the Seven Fiends to be forged, Living up to Subdue Evil’s remark of a ’Companion Spirit Treasure’.

But now, this unrivaled sharp sword, capable of killing and also drawing others’ Blood Qi, perfectly embodying all of An Jing’s skills, could also be called his trump card.

Moreover, perhaps it was a hint from Heaven’s Will.

An Jing felt that the ’five divine skills’ needed for the complete form of Killing Life, corresponding to the Five Stars Five Elements, along with his Commanding Five Soldiers Thunder Method, and the newly acquired ’Great Five Elements Sword Intent of Destruction,’ must have a profound connection.

If he could truly master these skills and comprehend the true intent of the Heavenly Thunder Skills with the Life-taking Sword, he might be able to elevate this divine skill to an unimaginable realm!

"The three parts of my strength are like three interconnected, mutually enhancing talent trees— since one can strengthen another, focusing on one aspect to elevate the rest can alternatively be approached step by step, steadily and securely."

In the seclusion room’s Spirit Gathering Array, An Jing regulated his breathing. After deducing the truth that cultivating immortality was forbidden in the Embracing the Void realm, every breath he took now felt like a crime, a feeling of usurping assets from the Tianyuan Realm that was irresistibly addictive; his cultivation speed had inexplicably increased.

It seemed that even his heavenly mandate was urging him to plunder more spirit Qi from the Tianyuan Realm back to Embracing the Void, somewhat like earning foreign currency.

During this period of breathing adjustment, An Jing also tentatively set three goals for himself.

The most urgent first goal was to find his mother and ascertain her safety.

The second goal was equivalent to the first, but there was still time to observe, which was to go to Broken Blade Mountain to find the fragments of Subdue Evil.

The third goal was a bit further away, to find an opportunity to return to the Bright Mirror Sect after accomplishing the first two goals.

As he confirmed these three goals, the sound of the warehouse door opening resonated, and An Jing got up to meet Huo Qing, who rushed in hurriedly.

"An Jing! You... huh, you don’t look injured?"

At first, Huo Qing looked anxious as he carried a box of supplies, likely various medicines and Green Wood Core Cakes. But when he saw An Jing looking healthy, this good-natured man couldn’t help but become perplexed, "What’s going on? Could there be some emergency, or are there other injured people?"

He didn’t assume An Jing was making fun of him, but wondered if there might be an ulterior motive, or perhaps, like the last time, An Jing had brought other injured people from his sect for treatment.

"No, it’s me who is injured."

An Jing extended his hand, and Huo Qing, somewhat bewildered, grasped it—then this fellow cultivator, who had also mastered the sensory techniques of the Embracing the Void Martial Arts, was shocked, "Your body, it’s completely wrecked... Imperial Heaven above, you need medicine now!"

Saying so, Huo Qing hurriedly took out a Life-Healing Talisman and a light green injector from the box. Aside from that, four green rice cakes were placed in vacuum bags.

"Thanks a lot."

An Jing didn’t stand on ceremony. Although the Life-Healing Talisman was expensive, it contained pure vitality. During Nian Qin, the mother of Nian Quan’s last moments, it could even prolong life by a quarter of an hour. It was the most effective among various healing talismans commonly seen in the Tianyuan Realm, priced at three hundred Good Deeds per piece, ten times that of a Healing Talisman.

The Life-Healing Talisman applied to the back of the neck, An Jing immediately felt waves of refreshing vitality spreading from his spinal column to his limbs and bones. His bones, barely healed, held together by Blood Qi of killing life, began to fully recover, and his condition returned to nearly complete within the span of a few snaps!

"Don’t be careless!"

Still serious, Huo Qing immediately took out the light green injector, "Although the Life-Healing Talisman has pure vitality, it also triggers your body’s potential, so using multiple talismans in a short period could lead to internal organ failure."

"I see you have also used some secret technique to treat your injuries before; combining the two could cause complications... Here’s an injection of ’Green Essential Spirit Gel,’ made by simmering the core of Evergreen Wood to extract its gel-like essence, highly effective in nourishing the internal organs."

"Even if applied externally, it can quickly form a protective layer, substituting some skin and flesh functions."

"This..." On hearing this, An Jing knew that this substance was likely as expensive as the Life-Healing Talisman, an essential lifesaving drug. He was about to decline when he saw Huo Qing had already fitted the needle and opened the drug’s container, leaving him no choice but to say, "Ah, let me do it myself, otherwise this needle might not go in properly."

Under Huo Qing’s watchful eyes, An Jing skillfully administered the drug by muscle injection. It was indeed an effective medication; if the Life-Healing Talisman had restored An Jing to nearly his full condition, after a night’s rest with this injection, he felt he could recover more than 120% of his vitality.

While the drug’s effects still lingered, An Jing’s regeneration abilities were significantly enhanced.

As for the Green Wood Core Cakes, compared to these two expensive drugs, they were merely common health-preserving pastries.

An Jing took one and forcefully stuffed the rest into Huo Qing’s hands, "You’ve been over-practicing the Imperial Heaven skills lately, your body is a bit overdrawn; have a few more!"

For a moment, the warehouse was silent. The two split the cakes and began eating.