Chapter 248 - 242: Five Evils Reincarnation, All Five Aggregates Are Void

Chapter 248: Chapter 242: Five Evils Reincarnation, All Five Aggregates Are Void

’I’ll test them one by one. I’ll start with [Life] and should be able to find the right path eventually.’

Fu Juemin temporarily set aside his research on the Gratitude Sensing Realm and focused his attention back on himself.

Having activated [Gui Cang] daily for internal nourishment and consumed all sorts of restorative tonics during this time, his strength had finally recovered for the most part.

In his Dantian, the "Innate Primordial Liquid" that had previously vanished had reappeared, though it was much less than during his peak, appearing several sizes smaller.

’It feels great to go all out, but afterward, I have to painstakingly refill the energy bar...’

After killing the Old Turtle Spirit, Fu Juemin had gained a full two-plus Skill Points. He now stared at his character panel, considering which Martial Arts to level up.

He needed to level up both the Dragon Elephant Skill and the Pharmacist Skill, but he didn’t know how many points it would take to advance past Great Success. Just hoarding points wouldn’t work. Fu Juemin’s plan was to use one Skill Point and save the other.

He scanned his Cultivation Technique list, thought for a moment, and his gaze finally landed on the "Five Aggregates Profound Slaughter Technique."

Ever since leveling the "Five Aggregates Profound Slaughter Technique" to minor success, he had been relying on his own arduous cultivation to successively refine the Five Phases Poison Seed.

The next step was to cultivate each of the five Poisonous Seeds to Perfection and then drive the Five Phases Poison Seed to form a stable cycle within his body, reaching the state of "Five Evils Reincarnation."

This process was incredibly perilous. The slightest mistake would lead to the five poisons attacking the heart, resulting in a sudden, violent death.

Fu Juemin certainly wasn’t going to take that risk, which made using skill points the safest method.

For the current Fu Juemin, the "Five Aggregates Profound Slaughter Technique" had gradually been relegated to a mere amplification Secret Technique used solely to activate the "Black Flower."

Yet when Fu Juemin first decided to practice this Evil Technique, it was for its tyrannical power.

’I hope reaching Great Success in this Cultivation Technique will bring some different changes...’

Having made his decision, Fu Juemin no longer hesitated. He spent 1 Skill Point, directly pushing the "Mastery" level "Five Aggregates Profound Slaughter Technique" to Great Success!

The instant he finished allocating the point, countless scenes of light and shadow flashed before Fu Juemin’s eyes.

Each scene depicted him undergoing arduous poison tempering cultivation, surrounded by the Five Poisonous Creatures, his face twisted in agony...

This was another benefit of using skill points: skipping the excruciating suffering and the vast resources required. If he had truly followed the steps to practice this Evil Technique, the risk of failure would have been a secondary concern. The agony of countless poisons corroding his body during the process would have likely twisted him psychologically.

’This Evil Technique... since ancient times, has anyone ever actually cultivated it to Great Success?’

Fu Juemin couldn’t help but ask himself.

Before he could think of an answer, he was completely submerged by the overwhelming pain that followed the fusion of light and shadow.

In an instant, his body twisted and crumpled to the ground.

Pain!

Excruciating pain!

A multifaceted agony spreading from the inside out, a pain that no normal person could possibly imagine, threatened to rip Fu Juemin’s Consciousness apart on the spot!

Throughout this process, he could clearly perceive the five Poisonous Seeds within him rapidly growing stronger, becoming solid and full.

Then, they suddenly dispersed, settling in his lower abdomen, between his eyebrows, in his liver, his lungs, and the Shanzhong acupoint in his chest. Each one transformed into a slowly rotating, continuously pulsing vortex of Poisonous Evil.

From each vortex, four toxic threads extended, coursing rapidly through Fu Juemin’s meridians.

PTHOO—

Fu Juemin spat out a mouthful of black blood. When it hit the ground, it corroded the solid wood floor, producing hissing white smoke.

His face was contorted, and foul blood trickled from his seven orifices. On his forehead, limbs, and lower abdomen, dark blue veins bulged and spread rapidly toward his heart.

His once handsome and well-proportioned features now looked like those of a vicious demon.

His body temperature fluctuated wildly between hot and cold. In his Dantian, the drop of "Innate Primordial Liquid" he had painstakingly re-condensed was now being consumed at a visibly rapid rate, as if he had activated [Demon Body]!

’Leveling up can’t possibly lead to a sudden, violent death, right? It can’t, can it?!’

Fu Juemin roared internally.

Thankfully, when the toxic threads extending from the five Poisonous Evil vortexes finally connected with each other—

VMMM—

Fu Juemin felt a strange hum resonate in his ears. Immediately after, all the pain and torment receded like a tide, replaced by a wondrous sensation of rebirth and euphoria.

He slowly pushed himself up and spat out a cloud of black qi.

As the black qi made contact with the air, it let out a series of faint, crackling pops.

With a slight release of Vitality, he shook off the cold sweat covering his body and the bloodstains on his face and neck. Turning his gaze inward, he discovered that the five Poisonous Evil vortexes, formed from the matured and perfected Five Phases Poison Seed, had now created a complex and stable "Poisonous Evil circulation network" within him.

These five vortexes had forcibly carved out more than ten unprecedented "Poison Meridians" inside him, all interconnected in a ceaseless cycle.

’So this is the Great Success Five Poison Skill, the legendary ’Five Evils Reincarnation’?’

Fu Juemin tried to channel the Poisonous Killing Qi from one of the vortexes. Instantly, the other four vortexes began to spin rapidly. The entire Poisonous Evil network activated at high speed, even beginning to spread into the surrounding meridians.

He extended his hand, watching the dark Poisonous Killing Qi flow like mercury across his palm. With a flash in his eyes, he gently pressed his hand onto the floor beneath him.

Silently, Fu Juemin’s palm sank into the wood as if it were a red-hot iron pressed into a block of solid grease.

His hand sank in without any resistance. When he lifted it, an incredibly clear handprint remained on the floorboard.

A thin layer of frost coated the area beneath the palm print.

’Cold poison?’

Fu Juemin was taken aback. He had almost forgotten that the most tyrannical and famous aspect of the "Five Aggregates Profound Slaughter Technique" was its poison.

With a shift of his will, he switched to channeling a different Poisonous Evil vortex and pressed his hand down again.

Another clear handprint appeared on the floor, but this time, its edges were scorched black, as if burned by fire.

’Fire poison!’

He switched again, pressed again, switched again, pressed again...

He tested it five times in a row, trying out the characteristics of all five vortexes one by one before slowly pulling back his hand and standing up.

’Cold, searing, corrosive, sharp, and erosive.’

’These are the five great Poisonous Evil characteristics, representing the Yin Five Elements. A regular Martial Artist’s Vitality would be as fragile as crisp paper against this Poison Force...’

Fu Juemin gazed at his pale, slender fingers. A flicker in his eyes betrayed a sudden thought, ’What if I channel all five vortexes at once?’

Once the idea took root, he could no longer hold it back.

Fu Juemin took a shallow breath. He slowly channeled the Poison Force from one Poisonous Evil vortex, combining it with his Vitality. A dark light immediately bloomed in his hand.

Then came the second, the third, the fourth...

With each additional vortex he channeled, the dark light in his hand grew stronger, while the color of his Vitality faded in proportion.

Beneath his training uniform, unseen by any, a network of fine, pitch-black veins bulged on his skin. They looked like writhing little snakes in agony, or the roots of a demon tree, all burrowing rapidly toward his heart.

The Poisonous Evil circulation network inside him also began to operate at high speed.

When all five vortexes were pushed to their absolute limit, the Vitality in Fu Juemin’s palm had become almost purely transparent.

That mass of Poisonous Evil Vitality, condensed to its limit, distorted a large area of the surrounding air, blurring his figure.

He raised his hand, his palm cradling what looked like a roaring, boiling, invisible flame!

Finally, he slowly pushed it out into the air—

WHOOSH—

The Palm Wind passed without a sound, yet a hollow, disintegrating power that seemed capable of erasing all Vitality was silently unleashed.

In its path, the solid wood floor of the training room—laid less than two months ago—instantly decayed from the outside in, turning gray and old... until it finally disintegrated into puffs of imperceptible dust that scattered on the wind.

A fan-shaped area, a full four to five meters long, was completely "cleared."

Countless tiny wood splinters rose into the air, dancing freely in the daylight filtering down from the ceiling.

’This is ’Five Evils Reincarnation’?’

Fu Juemin tilted his head back slightly, gazing at the dust and splinters dancing in the air, and murmured, "And I haven’t even infused a Demon Soul..."

After a long moment, once the dust had settled, Fu Juemin lowered his gaze. He felt a dull, needle-like pain from his many meridians and looked at the hand that had just struck, ’The Palm Force can actually be condensed even further...’

’The effect on inanimate objects isn’t obvious enough. The lethality against living things should be much greater...’

’Perhaps I can use it in conjunction with the Saber Technique of the Pharmacist Master’s Blade...’

’This single move... I’ll call it—’

’[All Five Aggregates Are Void]!’