Chapter 431 - 427: Wait Until His Nascent Soul Exerts Its Power

Chapter 431: Chapter 427: Wait Until His Nascent Soul Exerts Its Power

CRACK!

A short golden dagger vibrated wildly in Bai Zichen’s hand, but he held it in an iron grip, making it impossible for it to break free.

With a squeeze, the short blade shattered inch by inch. The cultivator opposite him suffered a backlash to his spiritual sense, and his face turned deathly pale.

He hastily cupped his hands in surrender and fled into the distance.

If he had kept fighting, the few Magical Treasures he had worked so hard to accumulate would have been mostly destroyed.

’Overwhelming an opponent with my physical body is a completely different feeling from defeating them with a Flying Sword. It gives me the illusion that the entire world is in the palm of my hand...’

Bai Zichen opened his palm. There wasn’t a single red mark on it, as if he had just crushed a Magical Treasure made of clay.

’I didn’t expect the Cosmic Light Treasure Sun Finger to be so compatible with this style of combat. I can tap a Magical Treasure and then use my powerful physical body to destroy it directly. It works every time on anything below a Top-Grade Magical Treasure.’

After he crushed three Core Formation Cultivators with the ease of an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, the crowd finally realized that this unfamiliar Body Refining Cultivator was no simple character.

Although he was only at Early-Stage Core Formation, his performance in combat suggested he was at least at the Late-Stage Core Formation level.

The sight of him shattering a Magical Treasure with one palm and killing a Core Formation True Man from the Divine Slaughter Sect with his bare fists was simply too shocking.

It was a visceral experience that the normal clash of Magical Treasures or duels of Divine Techniques could never provide.

Forget Liang Country; in the entire Northern Domain Cultivation Realm, there were no Sects famous for Body Refining.

In most people’s minds, Body Refining Techniques were something to be practiced as an Auxiliary Cultivation Technique, if one had the capacity, simply to improve one’s chances of survival.

Those with greater foresight, who knew that a powerful physique was immensely beneficial for a Great Tier Breakthrough, would put in the hard work to practice them.

But very few used Body Refining as their Main Cultivation Method to make their way through the Cultivation Realm.

The most relatively famous were a certain branch within the Dharma Aspect Sect, who specialized in the Buddhist Sect’s Indestructible Golden Body, which emphasized an incorruptible body and an inextinguishable spirit.

When cultivated to the highest Realm, one would achieve the Immovable Vajra, reaching the Great Arhat Realm, which was equivalent to Nascent Soul Perfection.

In the entire history of the Dharma Aspect Sect, only one Arhat had ever cultivated the Immovable Vajra Body, and he ultimately fell during an invasion by Outer Celestial Demons.

In the final moments of his life, he manifested the Immovable Ming King Aspect and dragged an Outer Celestial Demon down with him by detonating his Golden Body, resulting in mutual destruction.

Other than him, the Dharma Aspect Sect had never produced another cultivator who had practiced the Indestructible Golden Body to the Arhat Realm.

Outside the Northern Domain, only the all-encompassing Central Domain—where any path in the Cultivation Realm had enough room to flourish—had Nascent Soul Level Body Refining Sects.

This young man’s Body Techniques were so astonishing that people were already whispering and speculating whether he was another cultivator from the Central Domain, here to claim the last spot in the Lotus Secret Realm.

"Zheng’er, you must be careful after entering the Secret Realm... Don’t let your guard down just because he’s only at Early-Stage Core Formation. In the complex and unfamiliar environment of a Secret Realm, Body Refining Cultivators often adapt more easily and can pose a threat to our Sect’s plans."

Yanx Rulong’s gaze was like lightning as he seared every one of the man’s movements during the combat on the peak into his mind.

The Celestial Principle Sect’s Basic Cultivation Technique had no special Divine Techniques; it was quite ordinary compared to other Top-Level Cultivation Techniques.

But any cultivator who frequently interacted with the Celestial Principle Sect would know that after spending some time in close proximity to them, the difficulty of defeating a Celestial Principle Sect disciple would increase severalfold.

The more familiar they were with an opponent, the greater the strength a Celestial Principle Sect cultivator could display.

The Divine Technique derived from their Cultivation Technique, the Celestial Palace Dharma Eye, could perform a detailed analysis based on a cultivator’s movements, mannerisms, and True Essence circulation paths, thereby formulating a method to defeat them.

The more comprehensive the information gathered, the more accurate and effective the method provided by the Celestial Palace Dharma Eye would be.

This was also why Celestial Principle Sect disciples often suffered a clean and decisive defeat in their first encounter.

After a period of time, assuming no significant change in either side’s strength, they would fight again and again, eventually crossing an insurmountable gap to achieve victory.

Yanx Rulong had a premonition. This Body Refining Cultivator only had Early-Stage Core Formation Cultivation, but the threat he would pose to the Celestial Principle Sect would be no less than that of Xue Chan from Piaoxue Temple.

"Master, rest assured. After witnessing Bai Zichen, how could I possibly have any thoughts of underestimating the heroes of this world? ...Even the Vast Holy Body pales in comparison to him."

From the day he was discovered to possess the Vast Holy Body, Le Zheng had been considered the one and only choice to bring prosperity to the Celestial Principle Sect.

Even after being driven out of their Spirit Mountain—their home for ten thousand years—by the Five Phoenix Sword Sect and forced to flee to Liang Country, they had not lost hope, precisely because they had Le Zheng.

To prevent him from standing out too much, and also to ensure his Vast Energy was used at the most critical junctures, Le Zheng’s cultivation speed had been intentionally suppressed by Shi Chengdong.

If they hadn’t planned ahead and had instead fully squeezed out the potential of his Vast Holy Body, he would already be on the path of Shattering Core and Transforming into Nascent Soul by now.

But for the Celestial Principle Sect to return to the Central Domain with a status even greater than before, an ordinary Nascent Soul True Monarch was definitely not enough to bear such a heavy responsibility.

Only a Late-Stage Nascent Soul Great True Monarch, or someone even further along, could meet the expectations of the entire Celestial Principle Sect.

After arriving in the Northern Domain, Le Zheng ran into Bai Zichen on his very first Sect mission and was taught a harsh lesson by the Core Formation Sword Cultivator.

At the time, he thought the Northern Domain was brimming with geniuses and that Heaven-Defying Core Formation True Men were a dime a dozen, which was why he had run into one so easily.

His Dao Heart nearly became unstable, leading him to believe that the talent of the Northern Domain’s younger generation was even more outstanding than that of the Central Domain.

Fortunately, he later traveled through various countries and, during the siege of Zengguang Immortal City, encountered Core Formation Cultivators from the vast majority of Nascent Soul Sects. He discovered that not a single one of them could compare to Bai Zichen.

Only then did he realize that his previous stereotypes were more or less accurate and not far from the truth.

It was just that the Northern Domain’s younger generation had produced an anomaly like Bai Zichen, which made people wonder if they could compete with the geniuses of the Central Domain.