Cultivation: Start From Simplifying Martial Arts Techniques

Chapter 703: Mountain Sea Boundary

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

The Jiangshan Technique, the cultivation technique practiced by Wu Renxu, focuses on the Mountain Sea Realm.

Chen Fei lowered his head, looking at the jade slip in his hand. The Jiangshan Technique allows one to cultivate all the way to the peak of the Mountain Sea Realm, which means mastering the methods of condensing the nine divine palaces.

Compared to the Heavenly Heart Scripture he had acquired initially, the Jiangshan Technique was undoubtedly much more comprehensive.

However, in terms of profundity, the two techniques were nearly equal, but the Jiangshan Technique provided more insights into the conditions of the Mountain Sea Realm.

To cultivate to the peak of the Mountain Sea Realm, it was indispensable to awaken the four innate talents. These talents not only enhanced one’s combat strength but also stabilized the divine palaces.

Many practitioners in the Mountain Sea Realm had cultivated their essence, energy, and spirit very well. However, due to insufficient mastery of their awakened talents, they couldn’t break through the void barriers.

Alternatively, they could break through the void barriers, but the consumption of spiritual power was too great, making it impossible to sustain their talents.

Generally, those who could cultivate to the Mountain Sea Realm must have exceptional aptitude; otherwise, they wouldn’t reach such a state.

The greater likelihood was that the insufficient mastery of awakened talents was primarily because the chosen talents were too powerful to comprehend initially, which was the fundamental reason.

“Can’t believe I couldn’t choose something too powerful, it’s just…”

Chen Fei shook his head. This was somewhat similar to choosing cultivation techniques; sometimes, the strongest technique wasn’t necessarily the best for you.

The same applied to innate talents; if they couldn’t be enhanced, they might not be as good as average talents.

Of course, Chen Fei didn’t have this kind of worry.

Yesterday, Chen Fei had already simplified the talent “Domain Suppression” into “Suppressing Dragon Elephant Soul Tempering.” He didn’t know if Domain Suppression was really related to the Suppressing Dragon Elephant. After spending thirty-seven hundred pieces of medium-grade elemental stones, Domain Suppression was simplified into Suppressing Dragon Elephant Soul Tempering.

From now on, as long as Chen Fei activated Suppressing Dragon Elephant Soul Tempering, he could improve the proficiency of the talent “Domain Suppression.”

Chen Fei lowered his head to continue reading the Jiangshan Technique. Compared to the incomplete Heavenly Heart Scripture, the information provided by the Jiangshan Technique was indeed very beneficial to Chen Fei.

In the void, the stronger the soul, the farther one could fly. Chen Fei had experienced this once.

However, the soul in the Mountain Sea Realm, because it carried the illusion of the divine palaces, was different from when he first broke through.

The consumption of the soul in the void would be much greater than when he first entered the void.

So it was hard to say how much easier the subsequent explorations of the void would be compared to the first time.

After more than an hour, Chen Fei had set down the jade slip of the Jiangshan Technique and had picked up another one, which was the cultivation technique of Slaughter Origin Spear practiced by Zhang Zhaoyun.

The cultivation techniques practiced by Wu Renxu and Zhang Zhaoyun were not obtained from their spiritual treasures but were acquired when Chen Fei seized the treasures of their sects.

However, among their spiritual treasures, there had been many insights into their respective cultivation techniques. Apparently, in their spare time, both of them had been constantly pondering the mysteries of their practiced techniques.

And now, all of these had become benefits for Chen Fei alone.

After spending nearly another hour, Chen Fei had thoroughly read through the Slaughter Origin Spear technique, his gaze thoughtful.

Swordsmanship and spear techniques could be said to have been vastly different, with very low similarities.

However, fundamentally, both had involved the manipulation of spiritual and elemental forces, stirring up the qi of heaven and earth in combat.

Though the methods had differed, the ultimate goal had been the same. Therefore, Chen Fei had still studied the Slaughter Origin Spear technique earnestly.

Moreover, this Slaughter Origin Spear technique had been quite intriguing, practicing the principle of unity between self and weapon, treating one’s own spiritual treasure as a part of the body for cultivation, thriving and suffering together.

The benefits of such an approach were quite obvious. When it became difficult to advance in one’s realm, one could change tactics and enhance their own spiritual treasure instead, which could also elevate their realm.

The drawbacks were also apparent; one would truly be subject to the constraints of the spiritual treasure.

This Slaughter Origin Spear technique could be considered a somewhat unconventional method of cultivation, with some differences from the mainstream.

Naturally, Chen Fei wouldn’t choose such a cultivation method. With the Suppressing Dragon Elephant, Chen Fei’s recovery speed was even faster than that of a spiritual treasure when injured.

And in terms of resilience against attacks, with the Domain Suppression talent, it was really hard to say who was stronger.

Setting aside the techniques of the Slaughter Origin Spear, Chen Fei looked at other jade slips.

Wu Renxu and the others had collected some incomplete moves and secret techniques of the Mountain Sea Realm, but they were not systematic. At most, they could be considered as expanding one’s knowledge.

Chen Fei examined them one by one, planning to integrate them into the Heavenly Profound Sword.

The Heavenly Profound Sword had now reached the consummate stage. According to Chen Fei’s past habits, he would integrate other cultivation techniques into it only after reaching consummation.

The purpose of this approach was simple. By reaching consummation, one could showcase the strongest aspect of a cultivation technique. Chen Fei would first reach consummation with it to quickly build up his formidable combat power.

However, back then, most of Chen Fei’s strength had come from the Suppressing Dragon Elephant. Even if the Heavenly Profound Sword had reached the consummate stage, it wouldn’t have contributed much to Chen Fei’s improvement.

After all, the Heavenly Heart Scripture he had acquired initially had been incomplete.

In such a situation, there hadn’t been any need to insist on bringing the Heavenly Profound Sword to the consummate stage.

Spending nearly a day’s time, Chen Fei had finished reading all the cultivation techniques collected by Wu Renxu and the others, with a hint of contemplation in his eyes.

On that day, Chen Fei hadn’t only studied the cultivation techniques of the Mountain Sea Realm but had also briefly glanced at the cultivation techniques of the Combined Aperture Tempering realm, where Wu Renxu and the others had belonged.

Having a sect in the Mountain Sea Realm had indeed been different.

Leaving aside the profundity of the Combined Aperture Tempering realm cultivation techniques, just the continuity of the techniques had been well done by both sects.

Among these sects, when breaking through from the peak of the Combined Aperture Tempering realm to the Mountain Sea Realm, during the selection of talents, the daily cultivation techniques had actually provided some directional guidance.

That had meant, if you had succeeded in breaking into the void, because of the cultivation of the Combined Aperture Tempering realm techniques beforehand, some talents would have been closer to you.

At that time, you could have directly chosen these talents and dragged them back into the divine palaces.

Not only did it save time and effort, but also because the talents were fixed, there would always be guidance from senior sect members on how to cultivate them in the future.

Of course, even with the same talents, due to individual differences, there would inevitably be variations.

But compared to figuring it out on one’s own, the efficiency would undoubtedly be much higher.

Even Wu Renxu’s sect, which was in the early stages of the Mountain Sea Realm, had begun to take this step. One could imagine that the top sects on the Mainland of Zhongzhou would only do better.

Not to mention those holy lands.

Chen Fei thought for a moment about the Primordial Sword Sect. It wasn’t necessary to consider this issue for now because the strongest among them had only reached the mid-Combined Aperture Tempering realm, Tong Linyun.

To go from the mid-Combined Aperture Tempering realm to the peak, even with sufficient resources, would be difficult without several decades.

However, the cultivation techniques inherited by Wu Renxu and the others’ sects could be incorporated into the Primordial Sword Sect, allowing the disciples to choose for themselves, which would increase the sect’s heritage.

“Fuse!”

[Cultivation Technique: Heavenly Profound Sword (Mastery))

This time, Chen Fei consciously focused on the Heavenly Profound Sword, integrating parts of the Jiangshan Technique, the Slaughter Origin Spear, and some other incomplete moves.

Therefore, the final form was still the Heavenly Profound Sword, but the proficiency had dropped significantly, returning to a state similar to when initially mastering it. Obviously, this fusion had greatly improved the entire cultivation technique.

Chen Fei set aside the cultivation technique jade slip. Apart from the jade slips, Wu Renxu and the others had various heavenly materials and earthly treasures, with most of them being of the fourth rank.

Chen Fei hadn’t seen any of these spiritual materials before, only having read about them in records. Now, he had suddenly acquired so many.

With over two thousand pieces of high-grade elemental stones, converted to medium-grade elemental stones, it was over two hundred thousand.

In terms of the quantity of high-grade elemental stones alone, it was an astonishing figure for the Combined Aperture Tempering realm, but for the Mountain Sea Realm, it wasn’t much.

After all, based on the information Chen Fei had obtained from Tang Shouchang, sometimes a lower-grade spiritual treasure could sell for as much as three to four thousand high-grade elemental stones.

The combined amount of elemental stones they had wasn’t enough to buy even one spiritual treasure.

However, this was also normal because cultivation in the Mountain Sea Realm itself consumed a large amount of high-grade elemental stones. Being able to save up this many high-grade elemental stones was already quite remarkable.

There were fifty-three bottles of fourth-rank low-grade spiritual pills, almost two hundred pills.

Yesterday, Chen Fei had tried taking one pill and found that with the physique and spiritual strength bestowed by the Suppressing Dragon Elephant, such pills were effortless to consume. Chen Fei could easily consume one bottle a day without any difficulty.

If he were to practice in an extreme manner, these fifty-three bottles wouldn’t even last him a month.

Fourth-rank pills were very expensive because they could enhance spiritual growth. With Chen Fei’s current quantity of high-grade elemental stones, if he saved a little, he estimated he could use them for about half a year.

Chen Fei’s eyes flickered. It seemed that he was consuming elemental stones too quickly.

No, it was because he had too few elemental stones in his pocket.

Generating revenue and saving expenditure—only thinking about saving expenditure was definitely not right. How to generate revenue was more important.

After all, if he could consume pills at an extreme rate, Chen Fei’s cultivation speed would definitely surpass that of most practitioners in the Mountain Sea Realm.

After thoroughly counting Wu Renxu and the others’ collections, Chen Fei took out the Concealment Bell.

The Concealment Bell was still undergoing transformation. Chen Fei moved his right hand, and the Monster King’s blood previously stored inside the Concealment Bell was drawn out.

The aura of the Monster King’s blood, which had seemed as vast as the ocean before, now felt ordinary to Chen Fei.

Chen Fei allocated a portion of the Monster King’s blood and recondensed his clone, elevating it to the peak Combined Aperture Tempering realm.

The role of this clone for Chen Fei had once again decreased significantly.

Previously, under the Conjoined Body Technique state, it could still help Chen Fei bear pressure, but now that Chen Fei’s opponents had shifted to practitioners in the Mountain Sea Realm, the clone couldn’t handle the pressure anymore.

Until Chen Fei found a new Mountain and Sea clone technique, the main role of the clone now was to stay in the sect and serve as an elder for transmitting techniques and protecting the sect.

Because breaking through to the Mountain Sea Realm had left many of Chen Fei’s techniques insufficient.

Only techniques that could utilize spiritual energy could unleash the power of the Mountain Sea Realm, but none of the techniques Chen Fei had previously learned included this aspect.

The Heavenly Eye technique, at least, could still track auras, but currently, it couldn’t track spiritual imprints.

As for the Nine Revolutions of the Universe technique, the strongest forbidden technique in the Combined Aperture Tempering realm, if Chen Fei were to use it again, his elemental energy could still boil, but the increase in strength would be very limited.

The forbidden techniques of the Mountain Sea Realm involved boiling the spiritual soul, even burning it. Chen Fei dared not do such a thing now, as it could truly disable him.

“It’s this Slaughter Spirit Technique that’s truly remarkable. It can even sever the spiritual imprints left in the void.”

Chen Fei extended his sword finger, and a gleam of spiritual light condensed at the tip.