The Immortal Cultivation World Is Too Dangerous: I Return to Earth as a Divine Sage
Chapter 3 - A Useless Technique Above Soul Transformation? The Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record?

Chapter 3: A Useless Technique Above Soul Transformation? The Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record?

“Name: Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record,

Level: Above Soul Transformation,

Content: Complete,

Cultivation Requirement: Any cultivation aptitude,

Cultivation Difficulty: As difficult as a mortal achieving Soul Transformation in a single day.”

On the sofa, Ye Yang’s pupils contracted as he read the description of the final jade slip with his divine sense.

“A technique above Soul Transformation? And it’s complete? How is that possible? The Tianhuang Sect is just a sect overseen by Foundation Establishment cultivators. How could it possess such a terrifying technique?”

Ye Yang stared at the level of the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record in the jade slip, his eyes filled with shock.

He had considered the possibility that the Tianhuang Sect’s technique library might contain high-level techniques, but at most, they would be incomplete ones like the Primordial Thunder Art. A complete high-level technique was absolutely unthinkable.

An innocent man holding a treasure invites disaster.

In the cultivation world, techniques are the foundation. A powerful technique could give rise to a formidable sect.

For a sect like the Tianhuang Sect, overseen by Foundation Establishment cultivators, possessing a complete Golden Core-level technique would already be a grave sin, attracting the covetous eyes of countless others.

The Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record, a technique above Soul Transformation, was a sin among sins. Such a technique, even if the Tianhuang Sect had heaven-defying luck and somehow obtained it, would never be placed in the sect’s technique library.

It would be memorized and guarded as a deadly secret, never to be revealed to anyone. If it were exposed, it would spell the sect’s annihilation.

After a long moment of shock, Ye Yang continued to examine the subsequent content of the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record jade slip.

Though he was intensely curious about why the Tianhuang Sect possessed such a technique and even dared to place it in the sect’s technique library, that wasn’t important now.

The Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record had been brought by him from the cultivation world to Earth. This technique, above Soul Transformation, now belonged to him.

Since it was his, why bother wondering how the Tianhuang Sect acquired it? He should simply be grateful to the Tianhuang Sect for letting him obtain this technique and move on.

Time passed quickly. An hour flew by in an instant.

Ye Yang had finished reading the contents of the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record.

Why did the Tianhuang Sect possess a supreme technique like the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record, above Soul Transformation, and place it in the sect’s technique library without fear of attracting attention?

After reading the jade slip’s contents, Ye Yang found the answer.

The reason the Tianhuang Sect could possess this supreme technique and openly store it in the technique library was that it wasn’t considered valuable at all.

In fact, as long as you had spirit stones, you could buy the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record at any cultivation market, and it was dirt cheap—priced the same as an ordinary Qi Refining technique.

A complete technique above Soul Transformation level, priced like an ordinary Qi Refining technique? The reason lay in its cultivation difficulty.

Initially, when Ye Yang saw that the cultivation difficulty was described as “as difficult as a mortal achieving Soul Transformation in a single day,” he thought it was just a figure of speech, indicating an extremely high difficulty.

But after reading the cultivation section of the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record, he understood. It wasn’t a figure of speech—it was the literal truth.

The difficulty of cultivating the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record was even greater than a mortal achieving Soul Transformation in a single day.

The Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record was a yin-yang dual cultivation technique. According to the record, as long as one cultivated with a dao companion who met its conditions, cultivation speed would soar by leaps and bounds.

Even spiritual roots became irrelevant in the presence of a dao companion meeting the record’s conditions.

The Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record could ignore the quality of spiritual roots. Even with the lowest-grade five-element spiritual root, one could soar through the stages—Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Soul Transformation, and even realms beyond Soul Transformation—without any cultivation bottlenecks.

As long as the conditions of the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record were met, breakthroughs would come effortlessly.

From its description, this technique was practically heaven-defying. But how could the conditions for such a heaven-defying technique be easy to meet?

The dao companion meeting the conditions of the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record had to possess a special physique.

In the cultivation world, special physiques were also called “heaven-gifted bodies.”

Those with heaven-gifted bodies, whether male or female, were geniuses among geniuses. As long as they embarked on the cultivation path, they were guaranteed to have a shot at reaching Golden Core.

Of course, if the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record only required a dao companion with a special physique, it wouldn’t be so openly available, let alone priced like a Qi Refining technique.

In Qianzhou, where the Tianhuang Sect was located, heaven-gifted bodies were rare, appearing only once every few thousand years. But after joining the Tianhuang Sect, Ye Yang had learned that Qianzhou was merely a drop in the ocean compared to the entire cultivation world.

It was like a toilet’s footprint on Earth—utterly insignificant.

Heaven-gifted bodies weren’t considered rare in the broader cultivation world.

For supreme sects with Soul Transformation cultivators, gathering some individuals with special physiques wasn’t difficult. Unfortunately, the dao companion required for the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record wasn’t just anyone with a special physique.

The word “matching” in the conditions was critical.

Ordinary special physiques could aid the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record, but only for breaking through minor realms. To break through major realms—like Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment or Foundation Establishment to Golden Core—the special physique had to be of the highest grade.

Moreover, the number of such physiques required increased exponentially.

To transform an ordinary cultivator into a Qi Refining practitioner of the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record, one top-grade special physique was needed.

To break through from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment, two were needed. For Foundation Establishment to Golden Core, four. For Golden Core to Nascent Soul, eight. For Nascent Soul to Soul Transformation, sixteen.

In the cultivation world, ordinary special physiques weren’t hard for powerful forces to collect. But top-grade special physiques? Even supreme sects with Soul Transformation cultivators would find it extremely difficult to acquire even one.

Once obtained, such individuals were treated like treasures. If another force dared to have designs on them, it could spark a full-scale war.

Special physiques were categorized into low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and top-grade.

Low-grade special physiques had a shot at Golden Core, mid-grade at Nascent Soul, high-grade at Soul Transformation, and top-grade were guaranteed to reach Soul Transformation.

A genius with a top-grade special physique, once fully developed, would become a Soul Transformation cultivator.

Such a genius would be treated like an ancestor by any sect, nurtured with the full resources of the sect, and after centuries or even a millennium, they would become a Soul Transformation powerhouse, overseeing the sect and intimidating the world.

The cultivation conditions for the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record, not counting minor realm breakthroughs, required thirty-one top-grade special physiques just to reach Soul Transformation.

Not to mention that top-grade special physiques were exceedingly rare, appearing once in ten thousand years in the cultivation world.

Even if there were enough top-grade special physiques, who would choose to cultivate the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record?

Thirty-one Soul Transformation-level geniuses to create one Soul Transformation cultivator?

Even if the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record’s Soul Transformation combat power was unparalleled, could it compare to thirty-one Soul Transformation cultivators?

Thus, due to its difficulty, the Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Record was deemed a useless technique.

Those who possessed it, or sects that held it, had no reason to be coveted.