Cultivation: I Have Studied Abroad in the Modern World
Chapter 247 - 140 Formatting Immortal Law

Chapter 247: Chapter 140 Formatting Immortal Law

"Are you just letting Zheng Fa mess around?"

Junior Master Huang asked Zhang.

She looked towards the courtyard’s skylight. Zhang was a person who loved cleanliness and water; even though they were only staying here temporarily, she had meticulously set up the place.

There once was a small lake in this courtyard, and the grass around it was neatly arranged.

In the past, it looked refreshing and delightful.

But now, there were several eyesores placed around—a coffin and two square tables.

Zheng Fa took out his storage bag, opened it, and dirt poured onto the square table, with dust flying around the courtyard.

Junior Master Huang found it irritating to his eyes and turned to look at his own disciple.

Zhang’s expression remained unchanged, seemingly unaware of her master’s distaste, she retorted, "How is this messing around?"

Junior Master Huang curled his lips and pointed at the skeleton in the coffin, disdainfully saying, "This bone has not a trace of spiritual energy, if it weren’t so, would it even still be here for you to pick up?"

Yuan nodded from the side.

The origins of this skeleton were extraordinary, and it’s likely that those treasure-seeking cultivators had also pondered over it, many probably thinking of picking up a bargain.

If they didn’t see any value in it, it wouldn’t have ended up in the hands of Zheng Fa.

Zheng Fa heard Junior Master Huang’s words but didn’t take it seriously—

In the Xuanwei Realm, the only person who might understand his thoughts was probably Zhang.

Or to put it another way, even Zhang might have some doubts, but she gave him enough trust to let him act freely.

Junior Master Huang was different.

Even among the three Nascent Souls of the Jiushan Sect, she interacted with Zheng Fa the least.

He could feel that—Junior Master Huang didn’t have much affection for him. It wasn’t that she disliked him, but that she didn’t care much about him.

Zheng Fa even felt that in the entire Jiushan Sect, the only person Junior Master Huang really cared about was probably Zhang alone.

It was normal to be somewhat perplexed about his unconventional actions.

Zheng Fa organized the dirt taken from the secret realm and then turned to take out a white porcelain plate, softly speaking to the bones in the coffin, "Ancestor, my apologies!"

After speaking, a Frost Blade Talisman flew out from his dantian, slicing a very thin piece of bone from the skeleton’s finger, falling into the porcelain plate he held.

"What is he doing?"

Junior Master Huang asked; Zhang, watching Zheng Fa’s actions, also shook her head, evidently also confused.

Zheng Fa didn’t answer their questions but instead, his eyes shone silver as he looked at the bone slice.

Under the perspective of the Void Spirit Eye, the bone slice was magnified many times.

This bone slice no longer had any spiritual energy and had lost its powerful capabilities, unable to even resist a small Frost Blade Talisman. Thus, others felt it had become a mundane object.

But to Zheng Fa, this bone slice was extraordinarily uncommon—according to his understanding of Immortal Law, or as Zhang says, starting from Divinity Transformation, the physical body will become nourishment, no longer significant to the cultivator.

That is to say, cultivators above Divinity Transformation most likely don’t have real physical bodies.

But this skeleton had existed for hundreds of thousands of years and even after so many years, still had the power of a strike.

In Zheng Fa’s mind, this might likely be due to the effects of Tianhe’s new law.

The magnified bone slice had nothing special about it.

Under the magnified perspective of the Void Spirit Eye, it looked just like an ordinary human bone—mostly bone matrix with scattered bone cells, probably because the person was dead, so various internal structures in the cells had also ceased activity.

But this mundanity was very abnormal!

Not to mention, could an ordinary person live for so many years?

Could an ordinary person kill five Nascent Souls with a single sword strike?

Thinking this, Zheng Fa’s eyes became three shades brighter as he approached that bone slice.

He actually found something different!

Inside each bone cell, there seemed to be a void, as if something was originally there.

He couldn’t help but recall the cell structure in his own cells that resembled a spirit talisman.

Did this person also possess a special Taoist Body?

"Zheng, did you discover anything?" Zhang asked as she saw him look up.

Zheng Fa shook his head, "No conclusions yet."

He took out some paper and drew the structure of the bone cells with great detail, particularly depicting the void, before he walked towards the nearby dirt.

The components in the dirt were much more complex.

Besides the soil itself.

There were also fragments of magical treasures and human bodies.

"Zhang," Zheng Fa looked at Zhang, who already nodded without needing him to finish his sentence, "What do you want me to do?"

"Any different fragments, we need to record their shapes and categorize them," Zheng Fa shared his thoughts.

Zhang nodded, and also activated the Void Spirit Eye, starting to record alongside Zheng Fa.

On the side.

Junior Master Huang and Yuan looked at each other, shaking their heads, strangely showing a moment of understanding, and both walked out of the courtyard.

"Junior Master, did you understand what they were doing?"

"What were they doing?" Junior Master Huang sighed softly, "Those little couple’s interests, isn’t it normal that outsiders don’t understand?"

There were too many substances in the soil.

Even though Zhang and Zheng Fa were both cultivators, with Zhang being at the Nascent Soul Stage, it still took them a full three days and nights to sort everything out somewhat.

"Are you done?"

Junior Master Huang looked at the two of them packing up the coffin and square table and couldn’t help but ask.

"We’re done."

Junior Master Huang glanced at Zheng Fa and Zhang, seeing that their expressions were calm and nothing seemed off, he asked, "Didn’t find anything?"

"We did, a small discovery."

"That’s not bad then." Junior Master Huang nodded, "At least your sister didn’t follow you around for nothing."

"Junior sister, this discovery... is not small at all!" Zhang suddenly spoke up.

"Hmm?"

"We probably know what Tianhe Venerable’s new cultivation technique is all about now!"

"What?"

Junior Master Huang was stunned.

"Based on that bone? That pile of mud?"

Zheng Fa nodded.

"Wait a minute, those from the Tianhe Sect have kept it hidden for hundreds of thousands of years. The learnings of Tianhe’s new technique were lost for an epoch, and you two discovered it from just these two things?"

"Not really." Zheng Fa shook his head, "We still don’t know what cultivation technique Tianhe Venerable created, it’s just some speculation, so it’s only a small discovery."

"So what did you actually find out?"

"It’s probably... the approach of Tianhe’s new technique?"

"..."

Zheng Fa picked up the diagrams and began to explain:

"Junior Master, look, inside the bone cells of that disciple of Tianhe Venerable, oh, in this circle here, there’s a notch."

"Later, we also found some blood residues in the soil, um, cells, which had the same small notch."

"I didn’t know what this notch was for originally, but then we discovered a type of spiritual energy-infused metallic particle in the soil, which fits—these two shapes perfectly match! We suspect these particles might have come from the bronze sword he originally held."

Junior Master Huang blinked.

Zheng Fa, being at the Foundation Establishment Stage, was speaking in such a way that even him, at the Nascent Soul Stage, found it hard to fully grasp.

"Master, what Zheng Fa means is, the general idea of Tianhe’s new technique is to integrate the sword into the body, achieving unity between man and sword, strengthening the physical body with the power of the magical treasure."

"So, that’s why the particles from the bronze sword matched the cells so perfectly."

"That cultivator could survive for so long, perhaps it was because of that bronze sword."

It was Zhang who explained.

Having heard this, Junior Master Huang understood, frowning she said, "Tianhe Venerable created the method of Lifebound Magical Treasures, and Tianhe’s new method after achieving Divinity Transformation involves integrating the Lifebound Magical Treasure with oneself?"

"Yes, that’s what Zheng Fa and I guess."

"This approach..." Junior Master Huang said thoughtfully, "I seem to have heard of it somewhere."

"Sword Cultivators!" Zhang directly said, "I’ve read in ancient texts, in the last epoch, there was a type of cultivator who had nothing but his sword! And Tianhe Venerable was known for his swordsmanship."

Junior Master Huang nodded continuously, "Integrating the sword into the body, is that the essence of Tianhe’s new method?"

"No, it’s having nothing but the sword." Zheng Fa and Zhang exchanged glances, their expressions much graver than before, and spoke, "Junior Master, you should be aware of our Three Child Talismans theory, right?"

Junior Master Huang nodded lightly.

"Simply put, we believe that the rules of spiritual energy in this world were written by some powerful beings. Hence, the existence of God Name Sub-characters."

"I know that."

"But we discovered—Tianhe’s new method seems able to fundamentally eradicate these rules."

"Eradicate?" Junior Master Huang was stunned, "What do you mean?"

"These soil particles, many are from those cultivators’ bodies and magical treasures—yet when we observed with the ’Void Spirit Eye,’ the trails of spiritual energy contained no traces of God Name Sub-characters."

"What you mean is..."

"Tianhe Venerable at least mastered a method that could change, oh, should say cleanse, the rules of spiritual energy—I suspect it is that Execution of Immortals."

"And the reason why those Nascent Souls and Golden Cores died so quickly was probably because the rules of spiritual energy inside their bodies had been altered..."

Zheng Fa said, shaking his head, "Of course, this is just a guess from my sister and me, but given what we’ve observed, this explanation seems relatively reasonable."

Zhang was nodding on the side.

"Thus, we can also understand why Tianhe’s new method and the old techniques are almost like fire and water—for the old techniques, Tianhe Venerable could perhaps be called the Destruction Venerable. If sword cultivators are all like this, that’s... indeed a bit frightening."

Junior Master Huang stood still for a long while, seemingly digesting the various logics.

Her mouth agape, she turned her head, looking at the coffin and the soil, her brows furrowed, appearing even more puzzled.

"Master, do you still not understand something?"

Zhang gently asked.

"I get what you’re saying..." Junior Master Huang waved her hand, saying, "I just can’t quite believe that from just these two things, you can deduce so much?"

...

Modern Era.

Tang Lingwu and Old Man Bai listened to Zheng Fa’s introduction about Tianhe’s new method, and after a long time, Tang Lingwu seemed to have finally understood and said:

"So, Tianhe’s new method is basically to format the spiritual energy?"

...That makes a lot of sense!