Chapter 246 - 239: Unknown Life Form

Chapter 246: Chapter 239: Unknown Life Form

The instant it awakened, the Primordial Flesh and Blood needed to absorb a massive amount of Spiritual Power from Jiang Zuo’s body.

When Jiang Zuo noticed this, he immediately channeled the Spiritual Power from the Daoist Shackles to it.

After nearly thirty years of being weakened in the Daoist Talisman Holy Land Secret Realm, not much Spiritual Power remained in the Daoist Shackles within Jiang Zuo’s body to begin with.

With this one absorption by the Primordial Flesh and Blood, the Daoist Shackles vanished completely.

Freed from the restraints of the Daoist Shackles, Jiang Zuo felt an unprecedented sense of relief.

Primordial Flesh and Blood is the origin of a person’s life, recording all their information.

Now that his Primordial Flesh and Blood had awakened, Jiang Zuo theoretically possessed the ability to be reborn.

As long as the Primordial Flesh and Blood was not destroyed, he could use it to achieve Nirvana Rebirth.

But this was only in theory.

A Cultivator’s rebirth from flesh and blood consumes a staggering amount of the Power of Rebirth, and the newly awakened Primordial Flesh and Blood did not possess such strength.

Therefore, cultivating the Primordial Flesh and Blood was a matter of increasing the power it possessed.

The method for the Primordial Flesh and Blood to increase its power was also very simple—refining and devouring!

The Body Freedom Technique contained a specialized Refining Technique.

Aside from Spiritual Power, which could be devoured directly, Jiang Zuo needed to use this Refining Technique on Spiritual Objects and Demon Beast Flesh and Blood, preparing them to be devoured by the Primordial Flesh and Blood.

The Primordial Flesh and Blood would store the power gained from refining and devouring these substances within itself.

The power possessed by the Primordial Flesh and Blood would far surpass that of the normal flesh and blood in Jiang Zuo’s body.

When the power of the Primordial Flesh and Blood grew strong enough, it would convert the surrounding normal flesh into more Primordial Flesh and Blood.

Theoretically, as long as Jiang Zuo allowed his Primordial Flesh and Blood to refine and devour enough Spiritual Power, Spiritual Objects, and Demon Beast Flesh and Blood, his entire body would eventually be converted into Primordial Flesh and Blood, enabling him to achieve Blood Rebirth.

However, the Body Freedom Technique recommended waiting until at least five portions of Primordial Flesh and Blood had been awakened before starting the cultivation of refining and devouring.

The reason was that if there was only a single portion of Primordial Flesh and Blood, mutations could occur as it converted the surrounding normal flesh.

The farther the flesh was from the original Primordial Flesh and Blood, the greater the chance of mutation during its conversion.

If one suffered a fatal injury and was reborn from only the converted Primordial Flesh and Blood from a distant part of the body, there would be a high likelihood of that flesh having mutated. The information it recorded would have naturally changed, leading to the reborn person being slightly different from who they were before.

After one or two rebirths, this change would not be obvious.

But as the number of rebirths increased, one might find that after many rebirths, they had become a completely different person.

However, if one awakened five or more portions of Primordial Origin Flesh and Blood, they could convert the surrounding flesh simultaneously. Ultimately, each portion of Primordial Origin Flesh and Blood would only need to convert 20% of the body’s total flesh.

More importantly, the five portions of Primordial Flesh and Blood would cross-verify the converted flesh for any discrepancies, ensuring all converted flesh was identical to the Primordial Origin Flesh and Blood.

No matter how many times one underwent Blood Rebirth, they would remain unchanged.

Cultivating the Body Freedom Technique to its highest realm meant eternally preserving the self and achieving an indestructible physical body.

Clearly, to cultivate to such a realm, awakening at least five portions of Primordial Origin Flesh and Blood was essential.

Therefore, after awakening one portion of Primordial Flesh and Blood, Jiang Zuo did not rush to cultivate it.

For Jiang Zuo, however, only awakening the first portion of Primordial Flesh and Blood had been difficult.

In the following years, using the method of getting injured and recovering, Jiang Zuo awakened five portions of Primordial Origin Flesh and Blood in less than five years.

Still, Jiang Zuo was not in a hurry to cultivate his Primordial Flesh and Blood.

’Since it’s possible to awaken nine portions, then naturally, the more the better.’

’I possess the Five Elements Spirit Body and cultivate the Body Freedom Technique. There’s no reason why others can awaken nine portions and I can’t.’

’It’s just a matter of time.’

「Another five years passed.」

Jiang Zuo had now been alone in the Daoist Talisman Holy Land Secret Realm for forty years.

By this point, Jiang Zuo had awakened seven portions of Primordial Origin Flesh and Blood. He was only two portions away from being able to start cultivating it.

During these forty years, Jiang Zuo had spent most of his time on the study of Arrays.

After forty years, his progress had been immense.

Thanks to the Beast Pattern Rune Technique and his skill with Talismans, Jiang Zuo had become a third-rank Array Master in just forty years.

Once he advanced to the fourth rank, he could be considered a true Array Master in the Cultivation Realm.

Theoretically, a fourth-rank Array Master was capable of setting up an Array to extract a Spirit Vein.

The Daoist Talisman Holy Land Secret Realm could probably last for another fifty years, and Jiang Zuo felt that advancing to a fourth-rank Array Master wouldn’t be a problem.

In these forty years, aside from Jiang Zuo’s own changes, his host of Pet Beasts had also broken through one after another, all under the rule of gaining Cultivation by killing monsters.

Great Black, Xiaoqing, the Fire Phoenix, and the third-rank Spirit Beasts from the Celestial Eye Black Pupil Secret Realm had all broken through to the fourth rank.

Jiang Zuo now had nearly twenty fourth-rank Spirit Beasts under his command.

With another fifty years to go, their Cultivation levels could still be raised considerably.

Beyond all this, one other thing in Jiang Zuo’s possession had undergone a tremendous change!

It was the Gourmet Innate Spiritual Soil, the one that devoured any Spiritual Object it saw.

The Daoist Talisman Holy Land originally had a high-grade Spirit Vein, but after several thousand years and constant meddling from the Dao Talisman, it had been downgraded to a mid-grade Spirit Vein.

However, the Daoist Talisman Holy Land also had another, separate mid-grade Spirit Vein, meaning there were two of them within the holy land.

Seeing this, Jiang Zuo decided to just let the little glutton out.

After all, he couldn’t possibly extract both Spirit Veins. The moment he took one, the Secret Realm was bound to collapse.

Adhering to the principle of not letting things go to waste, and since such an opportunity was rare, he naturally let the little glutton have its fill.

The little glutton latched onto one of the mid-grade Spirit Veins and frantically devoured it for forty years.

And then, it finally changed.

Jiang Zuo still had some spare, fully-formed Innate Spiritual Soil that he wasn’t using.

But this little glutton didn’t transform into anything resembling that other Innate Spiritual Soil.

It had merely gone from being a small clump of dirt to a fist-sized, yellowish-brown ball of mud!

Jiang Zuo was now completely certain that this thing was definitely not Innate Spiritual Soil.

It was probably some unknown life form, but for some reason, it just wouldn’t appear in the Beast Taming System.

The reason Jiang Zuo was so certain was that when the thing turned into a ball of mud, it had deliberately rolled over from the Spirit Vein and done a little spin in front of him.

He could clearly tell that the little thing was in an excellent mood.

After doing a lap in front of him, the thing rolled back to continue devouring the Spirit Vein.

Jiang Zuo couldn’t resist going over for a look, only to find that aside from devouring things faster, it seemed to have no other changes.

No matter how Jiang Zuo threw, beat, or smashed it, using every method he could think of, the thing remained completely unfazed and displayed no other abilities.

Since the thing loved to get around by rolling, Jiang Zuo decided to give it the name "Gungun."