Soul Emperor Martial God

Chapter 138: Chapter 137: Ice and Fire Dao Body

After Xiao Yi left, he entered a forest somewhere in the wilderness and found a random mountain. He blasted out a cave and, after disguising the entrance, walked in.

He was going to refine the Five Elements Pill.

Taking out nine Linglong Ginsengs from his Qiankun Bag, his heart filled with joy.

These nine Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were precious beyond compare, having cost him all his wealth to purchase.

Just one of them could allow a Mysterious Profundity Realm Warrior to break through two levels of Cultivation out of thin air.

Yet, he wasn’t using them for consumption but for Alchemy.

The pill recipe bestowed by the Ice Phoenix Sword, each one was incredibly potent.

The Golden Vein Pill he refined last time had already been terrifying in effect; this Five Elements Pill, being of an even higher tier, its potency goes without saying.

The other materials needed for refining the Five Elements Pill were long since prepared by him.

Now, with the addition of the Linglong Ginseng, he could start the Alchemy.

A fourth-grade Refining Furnace, the Separation Fire Gold Furnace; Purple Flame coalesced, with materials being added methodically.

The perfect alchemy technique was displayed to its fullest extent in his hands.

The Purple Flame illuminated the entire cave with a blaze of light; the youth moved his hands before the Fire Furnace, dexterous and at ease.

Several hours later, Xiao Yi took a deep breath and retracted the Purple Flame.

And within the Medicine Furnace, nine dazzlingly golden Elixirs appeared, breathtakingly beautiful.

”The Five Elements Pill is complete,” Xiao Yi said with a confident smile.

”Having used so many precious Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, the effect must be extraordinary,” filled with anticipation, Xiao Yi took one pill from the furnace and tossed it into his mouth.

The golden pill traced a beautiful arc in mid-air before finally landing in his mouth.

Upon entering his stomach, the pill transformed into pure medicinal power that spread through the first of his True Veins before coursing through all limbs and bones.

Almost visibly to the naked eye, Xiao Yi’s entire body underwent changes.

All meridians, viscera, Qı Pill, and bones were strengthening at an extremely fast pace.

After a while, when all the medicinal power had been absorbed, Xiao Yi felt incredibly refreshed.

”So, that’s how it is,” Xiao Yi mused to himself, ”The efficacy of the Five Elements Pill does not increase Cultivation, nor power, but rather improves the overall basic quality of the body.”

At the same time, layers of black, sticky substance oozed out of his skin.

That was the impurity within his body.

Apparently, the Five Elements Pill had the effect of cleansing and transforming both marrow and meridians.

”Even after cultivating the Asura Battle Body, which made my flesh incredibly strong and perfect, the Five Elements Pill could still refine out impurities. It’s truly powerful,” Xiao Yi said in astonishment.

The Five Elements Pill brought about a sublimation in his body.

Or to put it more simply, his body became stronger and healthier.

If he were not a Martial Artist, but an ordinary person who had never practiced cultivation, then his physical constitution could also be considered immune to a hundred diseases.

Following that, he swallowed the second Five Elements Pill.

The medicinal power distributed through the second True Vein, and his body was sublimated once again.

After ingesting all nine Five Elements Pills, his body was covered with a thick layer of black sticky substance.

”All the impurities within my body have been nearly completely expelled, my body is now perfect. True Qi can now circulate freely within,” he reflected.

”Perhaps this could even compare to a Taoist Body,” Xiao Yi smiled with satisfaction.

The so-called Taoist Body was something he learned about while Elder Yi guided him in cultivation.

Martial Artists cultivate the Martial Arts Dao, but it’s only after truly reaching the Mysterious Profundity Realm that one really understands what the Martial Arts Dao is; only then is one truly on the Martial Arts Dao.

And a Taoist Body is the physique that’s naturally born in harmony with the Martial Arts Dao.

Therefore, those who possess a Taoist Body are considered the darlings of heaven and earth, the most suitable for cultivation, and their speed of cultivation is extremely fast, almost a hundred percent assured to become a powerful practitioner of the generation.

There are many types of Taoist Bodies.

Among them, the Innate Taoist Body is the most renowned.

Ordinary Martial Artists go from Mortal Realm Cultivation to Postnatal, Innate, constantly strengthening their bodies; Mortal Realm Body Refinement, Postnatal vein refinement, and Innate True Veins formation.

This is a process of laying a solid foundation for the future journey on the Martial Arts Dao.

Those with an Innate Taoist Body are like Innate Martial Artists from birth, with unobstructed main meridians and even possessing nine True Veins as infants.

Although they didn’t possess the strength of the Innate Realm, their bodies were unobstructed and pure, which made their cultivation progress extremely fast.

Other Martial Artists, practicing from a young age, would take over a decade to become Innate Realm Martial Artists and lay a solid foundation; and that’s if they were geniuses, otherwise it wasn’t certain they could break through to the Innate Realm within a dozen years.

But those with Innate Taoist Bodies had laid a solid foundation at birth.

The gap between the two was clearly immense.

Even after reaching the Mysterious Profundity Realm, they found it easier to comprehend the Martial Arts Dao and to make breakthroughs more quickly.

This was a natural gap.

Therefore, every person who possessed an Innate Taoist Body was inevitably a genius among geniuses.

Of course, such geniuses were extremely rare, and Xiao Yi hadn’t even heard of them before. If it hadn’t been for Elder Yi telling him, he would have had no idea such Taoist Bodies existed.

Xiao Yi, upon introspection, saw the nine True Veins within his body shining brightly.

The Ice and Fire Qi Pill that was originally one red and one blue had now become much larger and more solid; the two beams of light were incredibly dazzling.

In addition to some lucky individuals who were born with it,

Taoist Bodies could also be cultivated through special Cultivation Techniques.

For example, Bai Bingxue of the Bai Family was aiming to cultivate a Snow Soul Body.

These postnatally cultivated Taoist Bodies were clearly not as good as the innate ones, but they were still far better than those of ordinary people.

And now, Xiao Yi’s body could clearly become one type of Taoist Body.

This Taoist Body formed from the nine Five Elements Pills, Xiao Yi tentatively named it the Ice and Fire Dao Body.

”I wonder how my Ice and Fire Dao Body compares to the Innate Taoist Body or the Snow Soul Body,” Xiao Yi mused to himself with a smile.

Having never met anyone with an Innate Taoist Body or interacted with Bai Bingxue, he naturally didn’t know the difference between them.

But he was sure that his Ice and Fire Dao Body was by no means weak.

Right now, his experience was shallow, his perspective limited.

Otherwise, he would know that an Innate Taoist Body couldn’t possibly have nine True Veins shining brightly, nor could a Qi Pill exhibit dazzling light.

A Taoist Body with such phenomena must be a perfect Taoist Body.

He didn’t know any of this.

Right now, he was already quite content.

Because this meant that his cultivation speed would become even faster, his strength improving more rapidly.

This way, the day he could return to the Xiao Family would be even closer.

In the eyes of the Northern Mountain Murong Family, the Xiao Family was nothing, not even worthy of being dealt with.

But he had an intuition that some accident or rather, some danger, was drawing ever closer to the Xiao Family.

He couldn’t pinpoint the source of these dangers.

But he believed in his intuition.

His intuition had never been wrong.

Only with sufficient strength could he eradicate these dangers and accidents.

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In a cave, he rested for a night.

At the first light of the next day, he immediately set out to hunt demon beasts.

Half a month later, the twenty demon beasts listed on his tasks were all slain by him, and he had returned to the Sky-splitting Sword Sect.

For ordinary disciples of the Sword Sects, going into the wilderness or forests to kill demon beasts was quite dangerous.

Where there were demon beasts, danger lurked on every side.

It was very possible that they wouldn’t have found the targeted demon beast before being attacked by others.

Or perhaps they would accidentally venture into the territory of even stronger demon beasts and fall into deep trouble.

In short, venturing outside for experience was fraught with dangers.

Therefore, it was difficult and time-consuming for ordinary Sword Sect disciples to complete these tasks.

But for an experienced Demon Hunter, as long as you had information on and could track these demon beasts, killing them one by one wasn’t difficult.

And for a genius Demon Hunter like Xiao Yi, it was even easier.

In half a month, he had completed his tasks and returned to the Sword Sect.